PSYCHOLOGIST

Rudolf Arnheim

1904 - 2007

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Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 – June 9, 2007) was a German-born writer, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist. He learned Gestalt psychology from studying under Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler at the University of Berlin and applied it to art.His magnum opus was his book Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954). Other major books by Arnheim have included Visual Thinking (1969), and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (1982). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Arnheim has received more than 237,827 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Rudolf Arnheim is the 91st most popular psychologist (up from 106th in 2019), the 1,362nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,545th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Psychologist.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

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Over the past year Rudolf Arnheim has had the most page views in the with 23,877 views, followed by Spanish (6,940), and German (5,383). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (79.56%), Finnish (56.66%), and Estonian (44.85%)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Rudolf Arnheim ranks 91 out of 235. Before him are Donald O. Hebb, Hugo Münsterberg, David McClelland, Rollo May, James McKeen Cattell, and Frederick Herzberg. After him are Muzafer Sherif, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Vladimir Bekhterev, Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Marie-Louise von Franz, and Benjamin Bloom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Rudolf Arnheim ranks 61. Before him are Donald O. Hebb, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, Moshé Feldenkrais, Josef Bühler, Peter Lorre, and Henri Cartan. After him are Leopold Trepper, Elyesa Bazna, Ralph Bellamy, Arnold Gehlen, Ernst-Günther Schenck, and Georges Canguilhem. Among people deceased in 2007, Rudolf Arnheim ranks 53. Before him are E. Howard Hunt, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Paul Lauterbur, Petar Stambolić, Michel Serrault, and Bob Denard. After him are Robert Adler, Ian Smith, Magda Szabó, Jaan Kross, Abbé Pierre, and Ettore Sottsass.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Arnheim ranks 1,362 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Baur (1897), Kurt Franz (1914), Otto Rasch (1891), Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759), and Bernhard Rust (1883). After him are Adolf Heusinger (1897), Feodor Lynen (1911), Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg (1708), Johann Schein (1586), Heidi Klum (1973), and Hans Leo Hassler (1564).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Rudolf Arnheim ranks 14. Before him are Fritz Perls (1893), Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Karl Bühler (1879), and William Stern (1871). After him are Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Adolf Bastian (1826), Ulric Neisser (1928), Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884), Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), and Charlotte Bühler (1893).

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