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#2051

Henri Dorra

#77998

Overall Influence

1924 - 2002 (78 years)

Henri Dorra was an Egyptian-born American art historian and educator. A specialist on Symbolism in French art, Dorra was Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

#2052

Enrico Crispolti

Enrico Crispolti

#81002

Overall Influence

1933 - 2018 (85 years)

Enrico Crispolti was an Italian art critic, curator and art historian. From 1984 to 2005, he was professor of history of contemporary art at the Università degli Studi di Siena, and director of the school of specialisation in art history. He previously taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and at the Università degli Studi di Salerno . He was author of the catalogues raisonnés of the works of Enrico Baj, Lucio Fontana and Renato Guttuso. He died in Rome on 8 December 2018.

#2053

Willemijn Fock

#179325

Overall Influence

1942 - 2021 (79 years)

Cornelia Wilhelmina "Willemijn" Fock was a Dutch art historian. She was professor of the history of applied arts at Leiden University. Career Fock obtained her doctorate at Leiden University in 1975 with a dissertation on the goldsmith Jacques Bylivelt at the court of Florence. In 1982, she became a professor of the history of applied arts at the same university. She was mainly concerned with the history of interior decoration and furniture, tapestries and goldsmithing. She wrote books about residential culture and Rapenburg in Leiden. Fock retired in 2007. In 2019, she was awarded an honorar...

#2054

Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov

#182270

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov is an art historian at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and authority on the art of Vincent van Gogh. Her book Van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook, contains reproductions of sketches said to be by the artist, but the authenticity of which has been disputed.

#2055

Eric Patrick

#151226

Overall Influence

Eric Patrick is an independent filmmaker, freelance animator, Guggenheim fellow, musician, and educator. He is currently a tenured professor in the Radio-TV-Film program at Northwestern University. Originally from Port Arthur, Texas, he played in a band throughout the Southern United States before he studied art and film at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He completed his MFA in experimental animation at California Institute of the Arts .

#2056

Carlin Glynn

#182191

Overall Influence

1940 - 2023 (83 years)

Carlin Elizabeth Glynn was an American singer and actress. Most notable for her work as a theater performer, she is best known for her Tony Award-winning performance, as Mona Stangley, in the original 1978 production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She is also known for her roles in John Hughes' Sixteen Candles and Peter Masterson's The Trip to Bountiful , which is based on the play if the same name, by Horton Foote. Glynn was the mother of actress Mary Stuart Masterson.

#2057

Wim van Es

#178690

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Willem Albertus "Wim" van Es is a Dutch archaeologist. Between 1965 and 1988 he was director of the Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek. Life Van Es was born in 1934 in Groningen. He studied classical archaeology and prehistory at the University of Groningen. From 1956 to 1965 he worked at the Biological-Archaeological Institute at the same university. From 1957 to 1958 he was also acting curator at the Drents Museum. From 1962 to 1965 he was curator at the Groninger Museum. He obtained his PhD at the University of Groningen in 1967 with a dissertation titled: "Wijster, a native...

#2058

Jane Hawkes

#155304

Overall Influence

Jane Hawkes is a British art historian. She is a Professor of History of Art at the University of York specialising in the art and sculpture of the Anglo-Saxon period. Career Hawkes completed her PhD funded by a British Academy scholarship on the "Iconography of Anglo-Saxon sculpture of the pre-Viking period in the North of England". She subsequently worked on a 2-year post-Doctoral fellowship at the University of Newcastle. She has taught at the Universities of Newcastle, Edinburgh, and the National University of Ireland at University College Cork. She is one of the co-investigators of the C...

#2059

Stephen K. Scher

#191405

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Stephen K. Scher is an American art historian and the former chairman of the art department, Brown University. He is a leading collector of portrait medals and in 2016 announced the gift of his collection to the Frick Collection.

#2060

Soe Tjen Marching

#173266

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Soe Tjen Marching is a writer, academician, activist, and a composer of avant-garde music from Indonesia. In 1998, she won the national competition for Indonesian Contemporary Composers held by the German Embassy. Her compositions have been played in New Zealand, Indonesia and Japan. Her work has been released on the CD Asia Piano Avantgarde - Indonesia, played by pianist Steffen Schleiermacher. In 2010, her work has been selected as one of the two best compositions in the International Competition for avant-garde composers held in Singapore. In her musical career, she has been mainly an auto...

#2061

Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen

#97829

Overall Influence

1945 - 2023 (78 years)

Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen was a Danish art historian. Nørregård-Nielsen was born in . He was an alumnus of Ribe Katedralskole and wrote several memoirs. In 2001, he was awarded the De Gyldne Laurbær prize for Riber Ret. His 1995 book, Golden Age of Danish Art reviews early nineteenth-century art. He was Chairman of the New Carlsberg Foundation Board until the end of 2013. He was also an adjunct professor of art history at the Aarhus University. He was awarded the Ingenio et Arti gold medal in 2013.

#2062

Leilani Sabzalian

#191421

Overall Influence

Dr. Leilani Sabzalian (Alutiiq) is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies in Education and the Co-Director of the Sapsik’wałá (Teacher) Education Program at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on creating spaces to support Indigenous students and Indigenous self-determination in public schools, and preparing teachers to challenge colonialism in curriculum, policy, and practice. She is also dedicated to improving Indigenous education in the state of Oregon by serving on the American Indian/Alaska Native State Advisory Committee and collaborating with the Office of Indian Educat...

#2063

Leigh Carriage

#191248

Overall Influence

Leigh Carriage is an Australian vocalist, educator and songwriter. Her festival performances include the Monterey Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival, Melbourne Women’s Jazz Festival, Brisbane International Jazz Festival and the Brisbane Festival. Carriage's 2013 album Mandarin Skyline, mixed and mastered by Grammy Award winner Helik Hadir, was nominated for a National Australian Jazz Bell Award, and Weave won NCEIA Album of the Year.

#2064

Charlotte Townsend-Gault

#176992

Overall Influence

Charlotte Townsend-Gault is an art historian, professor emeritus, author, and curator. Townsend-Gault’s research, teaching and scholarship concerns contemporary visual and material Native American and First Nations cultures, particularly those of the Pacific Northwest.

#2065

Sixten Ringbom

#155046

Overall Influence

1935 - 1992 (57 years)

Sixten Ivar Alexander Ringbom was a Finnish art historian. Biography Sixten Ringbom was the son of , a professor of art history at Åbo Akademi University. He studied at the Swedish classical lyceum in Turku, then at the Åbo Akademi University among students of his father. In 1965, Sixten received his PhD. A supervisor his doctoral thesis was art historian Ernst Gombrich. In 1970, Ringbom succeeded his father as professor of art history at Åbo Akademi University.

#2066

Claude Bremond

#52044

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Claude Bremond was a French semiologist. Biography In 1973, Bremond became the director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, where he was also chair of the semiology department.

#2067

David Craven

#177691

Overall Influence

1951 - 2012 (61 years)

David Lee Craven was Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico. He was a specialist in the art of Latin America. Selected publications The New Concept of Art and Popular Culture in Nicaragua Since the Revolution in 1979: An Analytical Essay and Compendium of Illustrations. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989. Diego Rivera as Epic Modernist. G.K. Hall & Co., 1997. Poetics and Politics in the Life of Rudolph Baranik. Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1997. Abstract Expression as Cultural Critique: Dissent During the McCarthy Period. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.

#2068

Frances Negrón-Muntaner

#187547

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a Puerto Rican filmmaker, writer, and scholar. Her work is focused on a comparative exploration of coloniality, primarily in Puerto Rico and the United States, with special attention given to the intersections between race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and politics. She is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University in New York City. She has also contributed to the Huffington Post, El Diario/La Prensa, and 80 Grados, and since 2008 has served as a Global Expert for the United Nations Rapid Response Media Mechanism.

#2069

Abigail Child

#145483

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Abigail Child is a filmmaker, poet, and writer who has been active in experimental writing and media since the 1970s. She has completed more than thirty film and video works and installations, and six books. Child's early film work addressed the interplay between sound and image through reshaping narrative tropes, prefiguring many concerns of contemporary film and media.

#2070

Francis V. O'Connor

#140953

Overall Influence

1937 - 2017 (80 years)

Francis Valentine O’Connor was an American art historian who was an expert on the contemporary artist Jackson Pollock as well as a pioneering scholar of the visual art of the New Deal. Life O'Connor was born Brooklyn in 1937 to bank clerk Frank J. O'Connor and his wife Blanche Veronica Whalen .

#2071

Takehito Koyasu

#130723

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

is a Japanese voice actor from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He is affiliated with and representative of T's Factory, a voice acting agency he founded in October 1998. His son is , a fellow voice actor. Koyasu has taken over many of the characters played by Kaneto Shiozawa after his death.

#2072

Mike Johnson

#154314

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Michael Oliver Johnson is a New Zealand author and creative writing teacher. He has written thirteen novels, eleven books of poetry, several short stories featured in critically acclaimed anthologies, and three children's books. Johnson has been awarded two literary fellowships in New Zealand, one with the University of Canterbury, and one with the University of Auckland. His novel Dumb Show won the Buckland Memorial Literary Award for fiction in 1997. He is also a founder of Lasavia Publishing Ltd, a publishing house created in Waiheke Island, New Zealand.

#2073

Ashley Walters

#177646

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Ashley Anthony Walters , also known by his stage name Asher D, is a British actor and rapper. He first rose to fame as a member of the UK garage group So Solid Crew, which hit the top spot with their second single "21 Seconds" .

#2074

John Pierson

#161909

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

John Pierson is an American independent filmmaker. He is best known for helping to produce the first works by filmmakers Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Michael Moore, and Kevin Smith, which he wrote about in his 1995 book Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes .

#2075

Matthias Müller

#179400

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Matthias Müller is a German experimental filmmaker and curator, often working in the field of found footage films. Biography From 1994 to 1997 he worked as guest professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt, and from 1998 to 1999 at the Dortmund Fachhochschule. Since 2003 he is professor for experimental film at the Academy of Media Arts , Cologne, Germany. For his films he has received numerous awards from many international festivals, including the American Federation of Arts Experimental Film Award in 1988, the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1996, the...

#2076

Z. S. Strother

#170776

Overall Influence

Zoë S. Strother is an art historian. She serves as Riggio Professor of African Art at Columbia University. Her work focuses on 20th and 21st-century Central and West African art history. She graduated from Yale University.

#2077

David Sellin

#184278

Overall Influence

1930 - 2006 (76 years)

David Frost Sellin was an American art historian, curator, educator, and author. He taught at a number of universities, worked on the staffs of several museums, and served as curator of the U.S. Capitol, 1976-1980.

#2078

Maria Gough

#101385

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Maria Elizabeth Gough is an art historian and actor. She serves as Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University. Her research focuses on early twentieth-century European art, particularly the Russian avant-gardes, Weimar, and French modernism.

#2079

Leoni Schmidt

#190867

Overall Influence

Leoni Schmidt is a South African-born New Zealand art historian and full professor in and previous Head of the Dunedin School of Art and Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies at the Otago Polytechnic and Deputy Chief Executive at Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus in New Zealand.

#2080

Hermann Fillitz

#100267

Overall Influence

1924 - 2022 (98 years)

Hermann Fillitz was an Austrian art historian.

#2081

Elizabeth Simpson

Elizabeth Simpson

#128148

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Elizabeth Simpson is an archaeologist, art historian, illustrator, and professor emerita at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, where she taught for 25 years. She is director of the project to study, conserve, and publish the large collection of rare wooden artifacts from Gordion, Turkey, which date to the eighth century BC. In this capacity, she is a consulting scholar in the Mediterranean Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia. She received her PhD in classical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985.

#2082

Annie Silverstein

#189753

Overall Influence

Annie Silverstein is an American film director and screenwriter. Early life Annie was born and raised in Oakland, California. She graduated from Macalester College. with a BA in American History, and in 2013 received an MFA in Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin.

#2083

Wheelock Whitney Jr.

#190342

Overall Influence

1926 - 2016 (90 years)

Wheelock "Whee" Whitney Jr. was an American businessman, educator, sports team executive and owner, philanthropist, and politician. Early life and education Whitney attended Phillips Andover and Yale University with George H. W. Bush. He and Bush were both members of Delta Kappa Epsilon at Yale. Whitney was a successful investment banker from 1957 until 1972, when he left the industry to teach at the Carlson School of Business at the University of Minnesota.

#2084

Antoine de Schryver

#185080

Overall Influence

1924 - 2005 (81 years)

Antoine Philippe De Schryver was a Belgian art historian and professor at the University of Ghent, where he lectured on History of Book Illumination. He was specialized in the field of illuminated manuscripts in the Southern Netherlands, 15th century painting, and artists at the Burgundian Court.

#2085

Rie Kugimiya

#133469

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

is a Japanese voice actress and singer. She is best known for her voice performances in anime, which include Alphonse Elric in the Fullmetal Alchemist series, Kagura in Gin Tama, and Happy in Fairy Tail and Edens Zero, and in video games, such as Haruka Sawamura in the Yakuza series. Because of her roles for characters such as Shana in Shakugan no Shana, Louise in The Familiar of Zero, Nagi Sanzenin in Hayate the Combat Butler, Taiga Aisaka in Toradora!, Aguri Madoka/Cure Ace in DokiDoki! PreCure, and Aria Holmes Kanzaki in Aria the Scarlet Ammo, some of her fans have nicknamed her the "Queen ...

#2086

María Concepción García Gainza

María Concepción García Gainza

#172441

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

María Concepción García Gainza is a Spanish art historian, educator, and writer. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Navarre. She is also a corresponding academic at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and the Academy de Santa Isabel de Hungary in Seville.

#2087

Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy

#163707

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy, née Sigrid Deger, also Sigrid Jalkotzy and Sigrid Jalkotzy-Deger , is an Austrian archaeologist who served as President of the Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. She is known for her study of Mycenaean Greece.

#2088

Edmund T. Gordon

#191614

Overall Influence

Edmund T. Gordon is the founding (former) chair of the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology of the African Diaspora, and Vice Provost for Diversity at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Gordon is also the former Associate Vice President of Thematic Initiatives and Community Engagement of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement as well as former Director of the Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas. His teaching and research interests include: Culture and ...

#2089

Anne Rogers

#184313

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Anne Rogers is an English actress, dancer, and singer. Career Anne Rogers was born in Liverpool and began her stage career at the age of 15. She was in the original London production of The Boy Friend, playing the female lead of Polly Browne for nearly four years.

#2090

Teresa Gali-Izard

#187391

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Teresa Gali-Izard is a Spanish landscape architect, agronomist and professor of landscape architecture. Early life and education Gali-Izard was born in Barcelona in 1968. She received degrees in Agricultural Engineering and a Postgraduate in Landscape Architecture from Escuela Superior de Agricultura de Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

#2091

John C. Bliss

#184096

Overall Influence

John C. Bliss was an American educator and college administrator. He was educated at Cornell University with an A.B. in 1889. He served as president of what is now State University of New York at New Paltz from 1908 to 1923.

#2092

Minami Takayama

#161727

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

is a Japanese voice actress, narrator and singer who is currently affiliated with 81 Produce. She is also the main vocalist of Two-Mix and ES CONNEXION when it was active. Her uncle is a former New Japan Pro-Wrestling managing director Hisashi Shinma.

#2093

Anna Gruetzner Robins

#31205

Overall Influence

Anna Gruetzner Robins is a Canadian art historian who is a professor at the University of Reading. She is a specialist in the art of Walter Sickert about which she has written three books. She completed her BA at the University of Toronto and her MA and PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

#2094

Geoffrey Quilley

#172881

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Geoffrey Quilley Selected publications Articles "'By cruel foes oppress'd': British naval draughtsmen in Tahiti and the South Pacific in the 1840s", Journal of Historical Geography, 43. pp. 71–84. ISSN 0305-7488"Introduction: mapping the art of travel and exploration", Journal of Historical Geography, 43. pp. 2–8. ISSN 0305-7488"Art history and double consciousness: visual culture and eighteenth-century maritime Britain", Eighteenth-Century Studies, 48 . pp. 21–35. ISSN 0013-2586

#2095

Paul Ardenne

#56387

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Paul Ardenne is Professor of history at the University of Amiens, and is also an art critic and a curator in the field of contemporary art. He grew up in a family of farmers from Charente , he studied literature, history and philosophy at the University of Poitiers and University of Toulouse, before completing a doctorate in history of art with Laurence Bertrand Dorléac at the University of Paris I . In Paris, he encountered the future contemporary art curator, Ami Barak, as well as Catherine Millet, founder/director of Art Press and José Alvarez, director of the publishing label Regard, thre...

#2096

António Filipe Pimentel

#172685

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

António Manuel Filipe Rocha Pimentel is a Portuguese academic and art historian currently the director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal. He served as director of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga from March 2010 until June 2019. Prior to this he was the director of the Museu Grão Vasco, in Viseu. Between 2007 and 2009 he was Dean of the University of Coimbra, responsible for the field of Heritage. Between 2020 and 2022 he sat on the board of directors for the World Monuments Fund Portugal.

#2097

Steven Gilborn

#106698

Overall Influence

1936 - 2009 (73 years)

Steven Neil Gilborn was an American actor and educator. He portrayed Harold Morgan on Ellen. Gilborn was born in New Rochelle, New York. He attended Swarthmore College, where he was awarded a bachelor's degree in English and earned a Ph.D. in dramatic literature from Stanford University in 1969, where his dissertation provided a psychoanalytic perspective on the plays of the 19th-century French dramatist Émile Augier.

#2098

Kenichi Suzumura

#151573

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

is a Japanese voice actor, narrator, and singer who is affiliated with and a representative of INTENTION, a voice acting company he founded in March 2012. He voiced Morley in Macross 7, Hikaru Hitachiin in Ouran High School Host Club, Masato Hijirikawa in Uta no Prince-sama, Kyoichi Kanzaki alongside Hideo Ishikawa, Shinichiro Miki, Michiko Neya & Kazusa Murai in BOYS BE, Shiki Tohno in Tsukihime, Tsubaki Asahina in Brothers Conflict, Yuya Aso alongside with Megumi Toyoguchi, with Haruna Ikezawa, Oma Ichimura, Hiroki Takahashi, Hiroshi Kamiya & Yukimasa Obi in Super Gals!, Atsushi Murasakiba...

#2099

Juhan Maiste

#127821

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Juhan Maiste is an Estonian art historian. In 1976 he graduated from Tartu State University with a degree in art history. Since 2007 he has been a professor at the University of Tartu. Since 2009 he is the chief editor of the Baltic Journal of Art History.

#2100

Dina Parakhina

#187770

Overall Influence

Dina Parakhina is a Russian pianist and teacher. Biography Born in Russia, Dina Parakhina studied at the Moscow Central School of Music with Tamara Bobovich and later at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Yevgeny Malinin. . Following her graduation, she became Professor of Piano at the Central Music School-Moscow Conservatoire, and was the chair of the department for fifteen years.

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