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Luigi Colani

1928 - 2019

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Luigi Colani (born Lutz Colani 2 August 1928 – 16 September 2019) was a German industrial designer. His long career began in the 1950s when he designed cars for companies including Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Volkswagen, and BMW. In 1957, he dropped his first name Lutz using the name Luigi. In the 1960s, he began designing furniture, and as of the 1970s, he expanded in numerous areas, ranging from household items such as ballpoint pens and television sets to uniforms and trucks and entire kitchens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Colani has received more than 273,437 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Colani is the 46th most popular designer (up from 47th in 2019), the 2,868th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,614th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Designer.

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  • 270k

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  • 53.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Luigi Colani ranks 46 out of 104. Before him are Adrian Frutiger, Andokides painter, Jimmy Choo, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., Betsy Ross, and Otl Aicher. After him are Margarete Steiff, John Baskerville, Eiko Ishioka, Syd Mead, Milton Glaser, and Laura Biagiotti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Luigi Colani ranks 222. Before him are Robert M. Pirsig, Yury Yakovlev, Reg Park, Willy Mairesse, Saw Maung, and Leonid Bykov. After him are Anatoly Filipchenko, Jörg Demus, Pernell Roberts, Nguyễn Văn Thuận, Rosemary Clooney, and Eric Dolphy. Among people deceased in 2019, Luigi Colani ranks 163. Before him are Edith González, Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Ric Ocasek, Krishna Sobti, Jean-Pierre Marielle, and Peter Schreier. After him are José Antonio Reyes, Marie-José Nat, Don Alden Adams, Seymour Cassel, Jörg Demus, and Sogyal Rinpoche.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Luigi Colani ranks 2,868 out of 7,253. Before him are Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1659), Paula Mollenhauer (1908), Hamit Altıntop (1982), Judith of Thuringia (1135), Beatrice of Swabia (1198), and Wilhelm Leibl (1844). After him are Claus Schilling (1871), Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch (1888), Susanna of Bavaria (1502), Johannes Werner (1468), Elga Andersen (1935), and Cornelia Funke (1958).

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Among DESIGNERS In Germany

Among designers born in Germany, Luigi Colani ranks 7. Before him are Michael Thonet (1796), Georg Elser (1903), Hugo Boss (1885), Dieter Rams (1932), Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914), and Otl Aicher (1922). After him are Margarete Steiff (1847), Anton Koberger (1440), Erik Spiekermann (1947), and Philipp Plein (1978).

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