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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 262,172 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Luigi Colani is the 47th most popular designer (down from 41st in 2019), the 2,617th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,026th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Designer.

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  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Luigi Colani ranks 47 out of 86. Before him are Josiah Wedgwood, Mariano Fortuny, Adrian Frutiger, Nicolas Jenson, Syd Mead, and Diana Vreeland. After him are Georg Jensen, Eiko Ishioka, Laura Biagiotti, Otl Aicher, John Baskerville, and Milton Glaser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Luigi Colani ranks 202. Before him are Orson Bean, Horace Silver, William Peter Blatty, Édouard Glissant, Tahir Salahov, and Yury Yakovlev. After him are Dan Blocker, Nguyễn Văn Thuận, Nodar Dumbadze, Rosemary Clooney, Ara Güler, and Alejandro de Tomaso. Among people deceased in 2019, Luigi Colani ranks 148. Before him are Dick Dale, Mark Hollis, Patrick Sercu, Syd Mead, Lê Đức Anh, and Ric Ocasek. After him are Edith González, Carmen Argenziano, Andrés Gimeno, George Hilton, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, and Ahmad Shah of Pahang.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Luigi Colani ranks 2,617 out of 6,142. Before him are Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (1244), Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Siegfried Bing (1838), Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1842), and Hellmuth Walter (1900). After him are Marie Eleonore of Cleves (1550), William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1662), Axel Rudi Pell (1960), Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1594), Albert Günther (1830), and Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken (1746).

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Among DESIGNERS In Germany

Among designers born in Germany, Luigi Colani ranks 5. Before him are Michael Thonet (1796), Georg Elser (1903), Hugo Boss (1885), and Dieter Rams (1932). After him are Otl Aicher (1922), Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914), and Philipp Plein (1978).

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