Heinrich Wölfflin

Details

Nationality

Swiss

Notes

Author of Renaissance und Barock (1888) and Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe (1915), setting out five pairs of categories of formal analysis. Doctoral supervisor of Sigfried Giedion at Munich. Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe was first published Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1915. The existing source entry year of 1932 appears to reference a later edition (7th or later); the first-edition year is added for canonical accuracy.

Connections

• authored Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Das Problem der Stilentwickelung in der neueren Kunst
• authored Renaissance und Barock
• proposed Wölfflin's Five Pairs of Categories
• mentored Sigfried Giedion

Referenced by

• August Schmarsow opposes

Sources

1. Wölfflin. Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe. 1932.
2. Wölfflin, Heinrich. Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe: Das Problem der Stilentwicklung in der neueren Kunst. F. Bruckmann, 1915.