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Heinrich Wölfflin ( German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈvœlflɪn]; 21 June 1864 – 19 July 1945) was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles ("painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in art history in the early 20th century. [1]
Jul 15, 2024 · July 19, 1945, Basel (aged 81) Heinrich Wölfflin (born June 21, 1864, Basel, Switz.—died July 19, 1945, Basel) was a writer on aesthetics and the most important art historian of his period writing in German. Wölfflin was educated at the universities of Basel, Berlin, and Munich. His doctoral thesis, Prolegomena zu einer Psychologie der ...
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Widely influential professor of art history, major exponent of formalist methodology. Wölfflin was the son of a Swiss classics scholar Eduard von Wölfflin (1831-1908) and Bertha Troll-Greuter (Wölfflin) (1839-1911). He initially studied philosophy at the university in Basel under Johannes Volkelt (1848-1930), but the lectures of cultural ...
This article explores Kenneth Clark’s 1930 lectures delivered to students at London University on the theoretical writings of Alois Riegl and Heinrich Wölfflin. In the first lecture, Clark assessed the methodologies and ideas Riegl employed in his Stilfragen (1893) and Die spätrömische Kunst-Industrie (1901) in order to explore the philosophical ambitions of art history.
- Evonne Levy
Apr 24, 2015 · In this article I focus on what I will call Heinrich Wölfflin's “vision historicism” in the Principles of Art History of 1915—his famous account of a “history of seeing” that can be written in terms of the “optical strata” of different “ways of seeing,” “modes of seeing,” or “modes of perception” analyzed in terms of “general forms of representation” or “forms ...
- DAVIS, WHITNEY
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One of the most successful attempts was made by Heinrich Wölfflin in his book Principles or Art History The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art (1915). Through a careful study of Renaissance (late 15th- and early 16th-century) and Baroque (17th-century) works of art, Wölfflin distilled a number of principles, which he arranged in five pairs, which helped him characterize the ...
