Heinrich Wölfflin

Heinrich Wölfflin was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles 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. His three most important books, still consulted, are Renaissance und Barock (1888), Die Klassische Kunst, and Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe.

21 June 1864

Born on the same birth day (21 June): Bernard Ingham • Brandon Flowers • Dejan Ognjanović • Dimitris Papaioannou • Fiorella Mari • Iztok Mlakar • Josephine Webb • Kris Allen • Neil Doak • Norbert Brunner (bishop) • O. C. Smith • Prince Benedetto, Duke of Chablais • Rockwell Kent • Scipione Chiaramonti

Born in the same month (June 1864): Alois Alzheimer • Dwight B. Waldo • Frank Chapman (ornithologist) • Frederick Bligh Bond • Hermann Minkowski • Jeanne Bérangère • Ninian Comper • Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Otto Erich Hartleben • Ransom E. Olds • Richard Strauss • Rudolf Kjellén