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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 199,358 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Heinrich Wölfflin is the 65th most popular historian (down from 56th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 72nd 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 65 out of 339Before him are Libanius, Francesco Guicciardini, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Geoffrey of Villehardouin, and Gaston Maspero. After him are Henri Pirenne, Bernard Lewis, Theophylact Simocatta, Al-Baladhuri, Nicolaus of Damascus, and Johann Jakob Bachofen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 21Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Nellie Bly, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, Dmitri Ivanovsky, and John Jacob Astor IV. After him are Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Frank Wedekind, Rudolf Kjellén, Charles Cooley, Alfred Stieglitz, and Yun Chi-ho. Among people deceased in 1945, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 72Before him are Juana Bormann, Arthur Nebe, Odilo Globočnik, Otto Neurath, Franz Ziereis, and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler. After him are Konrad Henlein, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Yun Chi-ho, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Wied, Prince of Albania, and Felix Salten.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Heinrich Wölfflin ranks 80 out of 876Before him are Félix Vallotton (1865), Daniel Bovet (1907), Niklaus Wirth (1934), K. Alex Müller (1927), Alejo Carpentier (1904), and Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741). After him are Mario Botta (1943), Humbert I, Count of Savoy (980), Werner Arber (1929), Jean Tinguely (1925), Louis, Duke of Savoy (1413), and Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747).

Among HISTORIANS In Switzerland

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