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Hannes Meyer

1889 - 1954

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Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (18 November 1889 – 19 July 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hannes Meyer has received more than 206,653 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Hannes Meyer is the 104th most popular architect (up from 109th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 101st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Architect.

Hannes Meyer was a German architect and city planner. He is most famous for his design of the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, Germany.

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  • 1.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Hannes Meyer ranks 104 out of 518. Before him are Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Amenhotep, son of Hapu, César Pelli, and Filarete. After him are Luis Barragán, Aino Aalto, Auguste Perret, Ricardo Bofill, Lúcio Costa, and Albert Speer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Hannes Meyer ranks 39. Before him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Edgar Adrian, Walter Lippmann, Abel Gance, Günther Lütjens, and Kim Tu-bong. After him are Li Dazhao, Otto Georg Thierack, Olave Baden-Powell, Philip Noel-Baker, Richard Réti, and Hannes Kolehmainen. Among people deceased in 1954, Hannes Meyer ranks 24. Before him are Andrey Vyshinsky, Jacinto Benavente, Léon Jouhaux, Lucien Tesnière, The French Angel, and Clemens Krauss. After him are Martin Andersen Nexø, Auguste Perret, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Sadriddin Ayni, and Ivan Ilyin.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Hannes Meyer ranks 106 out of 1,015. Before him are Germain Henri Hess (1802), Louis Chevrolet (1878), Albert Anker (1831), Henri Guisan (1874), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), and Gaspard Bauhin (1560). After him are Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Jost Bürgi (1552), and Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Switzerland

Among architects born in Switzerland, Hannes Meyer ranks 7. Before him are Le Corbusier (1887), Francesco Borromini (1599), Carlo Maderno (1556), Peter Zumthor (1943), Domenico Fontana (1543), and Mario Botta (1943). After him are Max Bill (1908), Bernard Tschumi (1944), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Carlo Fontana (1638), Adolphe Appia (1862), and Pierre Jeanneret (1896).

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