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#2201

Victor Kord

#133037

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Victor George Kord is an American painter and educator. He currently maintains a studio and exhibits in New York City. He previously served as art department chair for several major universities, and remains professor emeritus of painting at Cornell University Department of Art.

#2202

Martin Hochleitner

#105469

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Martin Hochleitner is an Austrian art historian and since 2012, curator of the Salzburg Museum. Life Born in Salzburg, Hochleitner completed his studies in classical archaeology at the University of Salzburg in 1992 with the title of Mag. phil. In 2002, he completed his studies in art history at the University of Salzburg with the title Dr. phil.. He wrote his dissertation on the subject of Fundamentals and Reception of Sculptural Forms of Appearance in 20th Century Upper Austrian Art

#2203

Alexander Mouret

#178744

Overall Influence

Alexander Mouret is a Dutch lawyer and cultural entrepreneur, with a special interest in the interplay between technology and the visual arts. He is one of the founders and was, until 2021, director of the Leiden International Film Festival and founding director of “Brave New World”; a conference that aims to bridge the gap between academia and the arts and to look at how future technologies will impact human life. In September 2021, Mouret announced that he would step down as director of the Leiden International Film Festival, stating that, after his 16 year tenure, it was time for a new generation of film-lovers at the helm of the festival.

#2204

Debora L. Silverman

#116418

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Debora Leah Silverman is professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Modern European History, Art and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her PhD from Princeton University in 1983. She is a specialist in the history of Art Nouveau. She was a Guggenheim fellow in 1992 in fine arts research.

#2205

Charles Harrison

#178931

Overall Influence

1942 - 2009 (67 years)

Charles Townsend Harrison , BA Hons , MA , PhD was a UK art historian who taught Art History for many years and was Emeritus Professor of History and Theory of Art at the Open University. Although he denied being an artist himself, he was a full participant and catalyst in the Art and Language group.

#2206

Bette Gordon

#172826

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Bette Gordon is an American filmmaker and professor at Columbia University School of the Arts. She is best known for her films Variety and Handsome Harry both of which received critical acclaim in North America and abroad.

#2207

Tom Tait

#173911

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

George Thomas "Tom" Tait is an American professor, author, and volleyball coach. Tait founded both the Penn State Nittany Lions women's volleyball and Penn State Nittany Lions men's volleyball teams beginning in 1974. Since then, the teams have won a combined 9 NCAA national championships . Because of his success in developing the Penn State programs, he has been known as the "founding father" of Penn State volleyball.

#2208

André Bisson

#191078

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

André Bisson, OC was a Canadian professor and businessman. Biography Bisson received an MBA from Harvard University. He became the Director of Business Administration at Université Laval after serving as a professor. He was also the Director of the Canadian Bankers Institute, and Managing Director of Scotiabank.

#2209

Anna Kortelainen

Anna Kortelainen

#87361

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Anna Taina Aleksandra Kortelainen is a Finnish scholar, art historian and non-fiction writer. Life Kortelainen defended her doctoral dissertation in 2002 at the University of Turku about Albert Edelfelt. She teaches art history at the University of Helsinki.

#2210

Charlotte Eyerman

#175129

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Charlotte Nalle Eyerman is an American museum director and curator and expert in 19th century French art. She was appointed Director and Chief Curator of the JPMorgan Chase art collection in 2017. She is a member of the board of trustees at Accountability Lab. Eyerman has also served as Director and chief executive officer of the Monterey Museum of Art , and as Director of the Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.

#2211

Robert Todd

#190241

Overall Influence

1963 - 2018 (55 years)

Robert Todd was an American filmmaker, known primarily for his short poetic experimental films. He was a beloved Professor in the Film Department at Emerson College. His films have screened at international film festivals including The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The New York Film Festival, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Media City Festival, and others.

#2212

Larry S. Miller

#190119

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Larry S. Miller is an American-born serial entrepreneur, educator, music producer, consultant, and public policy advisor based in New York City. He is currently clinical associate professor of music business at New York University and the leader of Miller and Co., a media and tech consultancy he founded in 2009. He is a frequent commentator on music, copyright, and licensing issues whose views have been featured on CNBC, CNN, FOX News, Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, and Billboard.

#2213

Laura Malosetti Costa

Laura Malosetti Costa

#164490

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Laura Malosetti Costa is a Uruguayan-born Argentine social and cultural anthropologist, researcher, art historian, and essayist. She is also a curator of art exhibitions and the author of several books on Latin American art. She was recognized with the Konex Award in 2006 and 2016.

#2214

Dominga Sotomayor Castillo

#191040

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (40 years)

Dominga Sotomayor Castillo is a Chilean filmmaker. Biography She graduated from Universidad Católica de Chile with a degree on Audiovisual Direction in 2007, followed by a Master at the Escola de Cinema y Audiovisuals de Catalunya in Film direction. She directed several short films that were shown at festivals internationally. Her first feature film, Thursday Till Sunday was developed as part of the program La Résidence by Cinéfondation / Festival de Cannes, and premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it was awarded the Hivos Tiger Award.

#2215

Enzo Carli

#123432

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1910 - 1999 (89 years)

Enzo Carli was an Italian art historian and art critic. Life Born in Pisa, he studied at the University of Pisa under Mario Salmi and Matteo Marangoni. His graduation thesis was on the sculptor Tino di Camaino . In 1937 he was made superintendent of Aquila and two years later moved to Siena, where he taught art history at the University of Siena and was director of the Pinacoteca Nazionale until 1952 and of the Museo dell'Opera Metropolitana del Duomo until 1973.

#2216

Charles de Tolnay

1899 - 1981 (82 years)

Charles de Tolnay, born Károly von Tolnai , was a Hungarian art historian and an expert on Michelangelo. According to Erwin Panofsky, he was "one of the most brilliant art historians" of his time. Life and work De Tolnay was born in Budapest. He was the son of Arnold von Tolnai, an official of the Hungarian administration. In 1918, he began studying art history and archaeology as Karl Tolnai in Germany, first at the University of Berlin , then at the University of Frankfurt .

#2217

Sturla Gudlaugsson

1913 - 1971 (58 years)

Sturla Gudlaugsson was a Danish-born Dutch art historian and director of the RKD and the Mauritshuis in The Hague. Gudlaugsson was born in Skagen as the son of the Icelandic poet Jonas Gudlaugsson, but his father died when he was three and he grew up in Kleef with his mother's extended Dutch family. He studied in Berlin and worked first there until he felt he needed to leave the Nazi regime and got a job in Denmark. He then worked briefly at the Gemeentelijk museum in The Hague before starting work at the RKD in 1942.

#2218

Jomí García Ascot

Jomí García Ascot

1927 - 1986 (59 years)

Jomí García Ascot was a poet, essayist, filmmaker, director and educator. Born in Tunisia, he was a Spanish exile who lived in Mexico. Biography José Miguel García Ascot was born on 24 March 1927 in Tunis, Tunisia. The son of a Spanish diplomat, he spent his childhood traveling from Portugal to France to Belgium and Morocco.

#2219

J. Eugene Gallery

1898 - 1960 (62 years)

Joseph Eugene Gallery was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit. He studied sociology at Georgetown University, before serving in the U.S. Army during World War I. Upon his return, he graduated, and entered business in Washington, D.C. He then entered the Society of Jesus in 1931, and was later ordained a priest. He became a professor of sociology at the University of Scranton, and also worked in child welfare and in arbitrating industrial disputes. In 1947, Gallery became the president of the University of Scranton. During his presidency, the university's graduate school was established. Hi...

#2220

Carl Georg Heise

1890 - 1979 (89 years)

Carl Georg Heise was a German art historian. From 1945 to 1955 he was director of the Kunsthalle Hamburg. Life Heise was born into a Hamburg mercantile family with artistic interests. In about 1906 Aby Warburg became his mentor, and recommended to him a period of studying art history with Wilhelm Vöge in Freiburg. Subsequently, he went to Adolph Goldschmidt in Halle and—against Warburg's advice—to Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich. In 1910 he travelled to Italy with Wilhelm Waetzoldt and Warburg, visiting Venice and finally Ferrara, where Warburg was researching the frescoes in the Palazzo Schifanoia.

#2221

Arthur R. M. Spaid

Arthur R. M. Spaid

1866 - 1936 (70 years)

Arthur Rusmiselle Miller Spaid was an American educator, school administrator, lecturer, and writer. He served as principal of Alexis I. duPont High School in Wilmington, Delaware, superintendent of New Castle County Public Schools in Delaware, superintendent of Dorchester County Public Schools in Maryland, and Delaware State commissioner of Education .

#2222

Jerome Daugherty

Jerome Daugherty

1849 - 1914 (65 years)

Jerome Daugherty was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who served in many different capacities at Jesuit institutions throughout the northeast United States, eventually becoming president of Georgetown University in 1901. Born in Baltimore, he was educated at Loyola College in Maryland, before entering the Society of Jesus and becoming a member of the first class at Woodstock College. He then taught various subjects, including mathematics, Latin, Ancient Greek, rhetoric, and the humanities in Massachusetts, New York City, and Washington, D.C., and served as minister at many of the insti...

#2223

Ludwig von Schorn

1793 - 1842 (49 years)

Johann Karl Ludwig Schorn, after 1838 von Schorn was a German art historian and university Professor. His second wife was the poet, . Biography From 1811 to 1814, he studied evangelical theology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen. After graduating, he moved to Munich, where he came under the influence of the intellectual circle associated with Friedrich Thiersch; developing an interest in art history and archaeology.

#2224

Hannah Keziah Clapp

Hannah Keziah Clapp

1824 - 1908 (84 years)

Hannah Keziah Clapp was a teacher, activist and feminist in Nevada, US. She organized the state's first private school and was co-founder of the state's first kindergarten. She served as principal of the Lansing Female Seminary; taught at Michigan Female College; and was the first instructor and librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno. Clapp co-founded Reno's 20th Century Club, which in 1983 was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washoe County, Nevada. She was born in Albany, New York in 1824, and arrived in Carson City in 1860, where she established the Sierra Seminary.

#2225

John James Tigert III

1856 - 1906 (50 years)

John James Tigert III was an American clergyman, editor and academic. He was a professor of Moral Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, and a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Early life Tigert was born on November 25, 1856, in Louisville, Kentucky.

#2226

Queena Mario

1896 - 1951 (55 years)

Queena Marian Tillotson , known professionally as Queena Mario, was an American soprano opera singer, newspaper columnist, voice teacher, and fiction writer. Early life Queena Marian Tillotson was born in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of James Knox Tillotson and Rose Tillotson. Queena was raised in Plainfield, New Jersey, where she graduated from Plainfield High School. She studied voice with Marcella Sembrich, who advised her name change. She paid for voice lessons by writing newspaper advice columns under the name Florence Bryant, including childrearing advice; "You know a lot when you're 16, y...

#2227

Lucy Langdon Wilson

1864 - 1937 (73 years)

Lucy Langdon Wilson was an American educator and ethnographer who became widely known for her models of progressive education and for using laboratory methods to teach natural science to young school children. She was also a published ethnographer.

#2228

William Allen

1784 - 1868 (84 years)

William Allen was an American biographer, scholar and academic. He served as president of both Dartmouth University and Bowdoin College. Biography William Allen was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1784. He graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge in 1802 and after a few years of work became assistant librarian at Harvard. He became Pastor of Pittsfield 1810; President of Dartmouth University, 1817; and President of Bowdoin College 1820-1839. He was largely responsible for establishing the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College in 1820. He resigned in 1839, and died at Northampto...

#2229

Karl Lehmann

1894 - 1960 (66 years)

Karl Leo Heinrich Lehmann was a German-born American art historian, archaeologist, and professor. He was known for archaeology work in Samothrace, Greece and the related publications. He was a professor at New York University Institute of Fine Arts from 1935, until his death in 1960. Lehmann was the founder and director of the Archaeological Research Fund at New York University

#2230

Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl

1782 - 1849 (67 years)

Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl was a German Germanist, pedagogue, musicologist and conductor. Life Griepenkerl was born in Peine the son of a preacher, he first attended the school in Peine and changed in 1796 to the . From 1805 to 1808 he studied theology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, where he also studied philosophy and pedagogy with Johann Friedrich Herbart and philology with Christian Gottlob Heyne. In addition he studied music theory, piano and organ with Johann Sebastian Bach's devotee Johann Nikolaus Forkel . In 1808, on Herbart's advice, he went to Hofwil in Switzerland, wh...

#2231

John C. Young

1803 - 1857 (54 years)

John Clarke Young was an American educator and pastor who was the fourth president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. A graduate of Dickinson College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he entered the ministry in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1828. He accepted the presidency of Centre College in 1830, holding the position until his death in 1857, making him the longest-serving president in the college's history. He is regarded as one of the college's best presidents, as he increased the endowment of the college more than five-fold during his term and increased the graduating class size from t...

#2232

Mikhail Alpatov

Mikhail Alpatov

1902 - 1986 (84 years)

Mikhail Vladimirovich Alpatov was a Soviet historian and art theorist, notable for his contribution to the history of the culture of ancient Rus. Biography Alpatov graduated from Moscow State University, where he studied the history of arts from 1919 and 1921. Subsequently, he worked at the Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, and, from 1923 to 1930, in the Institute of Archeology and Art History of the Academy of Sciences. In 1943 he became a professor at the Surikov State Institute of Arts, also in Moscow. In 1954, he became a member of the USSR Academy of Art. He died in 1986.

#2233

Andreas Stübel

1653 - 1725 (72 years)

Andreas Stübel, also: Stiefel was a German Lutheran theologian, pedagogue and philosopher. Career Born in Dresden the son of an innkeeper, Stübel attended the from 1668. After the Abitur, he studied philosophy, philology and theology at the University of Leipzig, graduating in 1674 a Baccalaureus and in 1676 a Magister of philosophy. He then worked as a private teacher. From 1682 he was Tertius at the , promoted to Konrektor in 1684. In 1687 he was a Baccalaureus of theology, appointed a private lecturer at the Leipzig University. In 1697 he lost the position due to theological disputes. He ...

#2234

Olive Cowell

1887 - 1984 (97 years)

Olive Thompson Cowell was a patron of the arts and music, and a professor of International Relations. Career Cowell graduated from Barnard College in 1910. She taught in high schools for several years before becoming professor at San Francisco State University. She went on to found the International Relations department as part of the Government program at San Francisco State University in 1927, the first International Relations department in the USA. She taught at the university until 1956.

#2235

Rose Zeller

1891 - 1975 (84 years)

Rose Margaret Zeller was a New Zealand artist. Biography Zeller was born at the family home at 325 Cashel Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, where she lived until her death. Her parents were Hubert Andrew Zeller and Sarah Ann Zeller, who had arrived in New Zealand from London in 1890.

#2236

James Mason Hoppin

1820 - 1906 (86 years)

James Mason Hoppin was an American educator and writer. Biography James Mason Hoppin was born at Providence, Rhode Island on January 17, 1820. He graduated from Yale College in 1840 from Harvard Law School in 1842, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1845. He studied for some time abroad; and was pastor of a Congregational church at Salem, Massachusetts from 1850 to 1859. From 1861 to 1879 he was professor of homiletics at Yale, where he was also professor of art history from 1879 to 1899, when he became professor emeritus. He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science...

#2237

George William Cook

1855 - 1931 (76 years)

George William Cook was an American educator who served as instructor, dean, alumni secretary and manager at Howard University. Born a slave in Winchester, Virginia, he was one of 8 children of Eliza and Peyton Cook. He graduated from the university, as a student of both the liberal arts college, and the law school. His career spanned fifty-eight of the first sixty-six of Howard University's history.

#2238

Antoine Risso

1777 - 1845 (68 years)

Giuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard and naturalist. Risso was born in the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Risso when citing a botanical name; the same abbreviation is used for zoological names.

#2239

Cady Staley

1840 - 1928 (88 years)

Cady Staley was the first president of Case School of Applied Science, now Case Western Reserve University. Biography Staley was born in Florida, Montgomery County, New York on December 12, 1840. He earned three degrees from Union College of Schenectady, New York, to include his B.A. , C.E. , and Ph.D. . He worked at Union College as an instructor in Civil Engineering from 1867-1868, a professor of that subject from 1868-1876, and the Dean of the Faculty from 1876-1886.

#2240

Bhaskar Vishwananth Ghokale

1903 - 1962 (59 years)

Bhaskar Vishwanath Gokhale , also known as Vaidya Bhaskar Vishwanath Gokhale, and popularly called Mama Gokhaleji, was an Indian Ayurveda practitioner, Ayurvedic teacher, freedom fighter, and philosopher.

#2241

Edward Bradby

1827 - 1893 (66 years)

Rev. Edward Henry Bradby was a classicist. Academic timeline Educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford Canon of St. AlbansPrincipal at Hatfield College, Durham University House Master at Harrow Headmaster of Haileybury College Bradby retired somewhat early from Haileybury to do mission work in the east end of London, where he remained until his death.

#2242

Miriam E. Carey

1858 - 1937 (79 years)

Miriam Eliza Carey was an American librarian who helped establish the first libraries in prisons and hospitals in Iowa and Minnesota. Education and career Carey studied at Rockford Seminary , Oberlin College, Ohio and the library school of the University of Illinois, .

#2243

Hermann Goetz

1898 - 1976 (78 years)

Hermann Goetz was a German art historian and museum director, known for his scholarly contributions in the field of Indian art history. He was the Director of the Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery, and the Director of history of art at the Heidelberg University's Südasien-Institut .

#2244

Eduard Friedrich Poeppig

Eduard Friedrich Poeppig

1798 - 1868 (70 years)

Eduard Friedrich Poeppig was a German botanist, zoologist and explorer. Biography Poeppig was born in Plauen, Saxony. He studied medicine and natural history at the University of Leipzig, graduating with a medical degree. On graduation, the rector of the university gave him a botanical mission to North and South America. He was helped out financially by a small group of friends and scientists in Leipzig, that included botanist Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen, who in exchange, received sets of specimens. He subsequently worked as a naturalist in Cuba and Pennsylvania . In 1826 he departed fo...

#2245

David Scott

1806 - 1849 (43 years)

David Scott was a Scottish historical painter. Life Scott was the brother of William Bell Scott. He was born at Parliament Steps, off Parliament Square in Edinburgh, where he attended the Royal High School, and studied art under his father, Robert Scott, the engraver.

#2246

Michael Apostolius

1420 - 1478 (58 years)

Michael Apostolius or Apostolius Paroemiographus, i.e. Apostolius the proverb-writer, was a Greek teacher, writer and copyist who lived in the fifteenth century. Life Apostolius, a student of John Argyropoulos, taught for a short time at the Monastery of St. John of Petra in Constantinople. Taken prisoner by the Turks during the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he was later released and fled to Crete, then a Venetian colony. There he earned a scanty living by teaching and by copying manuscripts for Italian humanists, including his patron, Cardinal Bessarion. He often complained about his pover...

#2247

Shalva Amiranashvili

1899 - 1975 (76 years)

Shalva Amiranashvili was a Georgian art historian, one of the first to have engaged in systematic scholarly treatment of the art of Georgia. His name was posthumously given, in 1991, to the Art Museum of Georgia, which he had directed for 36 years, from 1939 to 1975.

#2248

Jeff Chandler

1918 - 1961 (43 years)

Jeff Chandler was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Cochise in Broken Arrow , for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was one of Universal Pictures' more popular male stars of the 1950s. His other credits include Sword in the Desert , Deported , Female on the Beach , and Away All Boats . In addition to his acting in film, he was known for his role in the radio program Our Miss Brooks, as Phillip Boynton, her fellow teacher and clueless object of affection, and for his musical recordings.

#2249

Antal Both

1875 - 1963 (88 years)

Antal Both was a Hungarian teacher, pedagogue and Roman Catholic theologian. Life Antal Both was a descendant of the Botfalvi Both family of noble origins, having its ancestral residence in Ung County. He was born on September 2, 1875, in Nagyberezna , as the son of the Roman Catholic Ferdinand Both. At that time, the settlement had mixed national and religious population, with a majority of Rusine and German inhabitants. Ferdinand, the father of Antal Both, set up a pharmacy in this town. In 1885, when Antal was 10 years old, his parents enrolled him in the Piarist grammar school in Nagykároly .

#2250

Charles Pomeroy Otis

1840 - 1888 (48 years)

Charles Pomeroy Otis was an American educator and author. Otis, son of the Rev. Israel T. Otis and Olive M. Otis, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, where his father was then pastor, on April 8, 1840. In 1844 his father removed to Rye, N. H., from which place he entered Yale College. After graduation in 1861 he was for nearly a year principal of an academy in Fairfield, Connecticut, and then became a teacher in General Russell's school in New Haven, where he remained until he entered on a tutorship in the college, in January, 1865. July, 1869, he resigned this office, and he spent the next three years in Europe, chiefly in study in Paris and Berlin.

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