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French art historian
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Place of birth
Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Death
3 March 1943 (aged 62 years)
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Place of death
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Age
62 years
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Father:
Victor-Louis Focillon
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Biography
Henri Focillon (7 September 1881 – 3 March 1943) was a French art historian.
Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Professor of Art History at the University of Lyon, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, at the Sorbonne, at the Collège de France and then in the United States, where he went into exile and taught at Yale University. Poet, printmaker, and a teacher without equal, Henri Focillon formed generations of art historians including George Kubler. He remains best known for his works on medieval art, most of which were translated into English.
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East Asia
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