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Heinrich Wölfflin

1864 - 1945

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Heinrich Wölfflin (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈvœlflɪn]; 21 June 1864 – 19 July 1945) was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles ("painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in art history in the early 20th century. He taught at Basel, Berlin and Munich in the generation that saw German art history's rise to pre-eminence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Wölfflin has received more than 213,865 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Wölfflin is the 66th most popular historian (down from 65th in 2019), the 84th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 80th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Historian.

Heinrich Wölfflin is most famous for his work on the Renaissance and Baroque periods of art. He is credited with the idea of "artistic progress."

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 66 out of 561. Before him are Francesco Guicciardini, Libanius, Theophylact Simocatta, Poggio Bracciolini, Al-Baladhuri, and Theopompus. After him are Gaston Maspero, Benzion Netanyahu, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Bernard Lewis, Al-Dhahabi, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 17. Before him are Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Miguel de Unamuno, Alfred Hermann Fried, Dmitri Ivanovsky, and Rudolf Kjellén. After him are Vilhelm Hammershøi, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Jules Renard, Frank Wedekind, Alexej von Jawlensky, and Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach. Among people deceased in 1945, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 67. Before him are Felix Salten, Boris Shaposhnikov, Kurt Knispel, Arthur Nebe, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, and Juana Bormann. After him are Odilo Globočnik, Maurice Halbwachs, Otto Neurath, Edgar Cayce, Konrad Henlein, and Eduard Bloch.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 84 out of 1,015. Before him are Werner Arber (1929), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Félix Vallotton (1865), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), and Max Frisch (1911). After him are Alfred Cortot (1877), Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980), Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), Roger Federer (1981), Mario Botta (1943), and Jean Tinguely (1925).

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Among HISTORIANS In Switzerland

Among historians born in Switzerland, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 2. Before him are Jacob Burckhardt (1818). After him are Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815), and Florian Cajori (1859).

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