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): Arnold Gesell • David Kushnir • Fred Cone (American football) • Jakob Linzbach • Judith Bingham • Kazimierz Leski • Kōichi Mashimo • Luis Antonio Tagle • Machado de Assis • Malcolm Rifkind • Margaret Heckler • Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet • Ralph Craig • The Wachowskis • William Dobinson Halliburton

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