Henri Focillon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henri Focillon

French art historian

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1881

Place of Birth: Dijon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 03-Mar-1943

Profession: professor, art historian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Henri Focillon (7 September 1881 – 3 March 1943) was a French art historian. He was 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.