Henri Stierlin (2 April 1928 – 10 September 2022) was a Swiss journalist and writer of popular works on art and architectural history.
Education Stierlin was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He studied Classics with Law at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich. He achieved Bachelor of Arts (Law) whilst at Lausanne in 1954. He also studied Theory of Art History, at Grenoble University in 1977–1978, writing a dissertation on the Symbolic Nature of the Persian Mosque.
Journalistic career Stierlin was a columnist in art-history, and editor at the Swiss newspaper Tribune de Geneve from 1955 to 1962, and a radio journalist at Radio Suisse in 1957 (cultural programs.) An editor for Rizzoli. In 1963 he became general editor of the Swiss magazine Radio-TV and architectural editor of the journal Werk-Œuvre in 1972. He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2004.
In his 2009 book Le buste de Néfertiti : Une imposture de l'égyptologie? (The Bust of Nefertiti – an Egyptology Fraud?) he argued that the famous Nefertiti bust in Berlin is a fake.
Books and publications Living architecture: ancient Mexican (1968) 192 pagesMacdonald & Co., 1968 Retrieved 21 January 2012 Encyclopaedia of world architecture volume 2 (1978) 499 pagesFacts on File The pre- civilizations: the world of the Maya, Aztecs, and Incas (1979) 95 pagesSunflower Books, 1979 Retrieved 21 January 2012 Art of the Maya : from the Olmecs to the Toltec-Maya (1981) 211 pagesMacmillan, 1981 Retrieved 21 January 2012 Art of the Aztecs (1982) 36 pages The cultural history of pre-Columbian America (1984)Aurum Press, 1984 Retrieved 21 January 2012 Art of the Incas and its origins (1984) 240 pagesRizzoli Retrieved 21 January 2012 Ma'yan (1994) 192 pagesVolume 10 of Architecture of the World Taschen, 1 January 1994 Retrieved 21 January 2012 ISBN 3822893099 Angkor and Khmer art (1997) 96 pagesParkstone, 1 May 1997 Retrieved 21 January 2012 The art of Islam in the East, from Isfahan to the Taj Mahal, Grund, Paris, 2002. L'architecture de l'Islam : Au service de la foi et du pouvoir, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 443), série Arts. Paris: Gallimard, 2003 Deus ex Machina, Infolio, Gollion, 2004 The Roman Empire: from the Etruscans to the decline of the Roman Empire (2004) 240 pagesTaschen, 2004 The art of Mediterranean Islam, from Damascus to Cordoba, Grund, Paris, 2005 The photographic vision of architecture: An itinerary in the image, Infolio, Gollion, 2005. 128p. Splendors of the Persian Empire, Grund, Paris, 2006. The Gold of the Pharaohs (2007) 235 pagesTerrail, 1 June 2007 The Pharaohs master builders (2008) 255 pagesTerrail, 2008 Retrieved 21 January 2012 Greece : from Mycenae to the Parthenon (2009) 224 pagesTaschen, 1 March 2009 - 224 pages Retrieved 21 January 2012 Le buste de Néfertiti : Une imposture de l'égyptologie?, Infolio, Gollion, 2009 Teotihuacán : La cité des Dieux, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard Hors série », 2009 Rituals and mysteries of the deified kings (2010) 224 pagesActes Sud Retrieved 21 January 2012
with Anne Stierlin
Splendour of an Islam World (1997) 219 pagesPalgrave Macmillan, 30 September 1997 Retrieved 21 January 2012 Hindu India: from Khajuraho to the temple city of Madurai (1998) 237 pagesTaschen, 1998 Taschen's world architecture Retrieved 21 January 2012 Turkey: from the Selçuks to the Ottomans (1998) 237 pagesTaschen Retrieved 21 January 2012 Islamic art and architecture (2002) 319 pagesThames & Hudson, 26 November 2002 Retrieved 21 January 2012
Joint
Pedro Ramirez Vasquez - Living architecture: Mayan (1964) 192 pagesOldbourne, 1964 & Grosset & Dunlap, 1964 Retrieved 21 January 2012 Hiroshi Daifuku, Philipe Stern, Ta-kuan Chou, Madeleine Giteau, Son Soubert, Luc Ionesco - S.O.S. Angkor (1971) 42 pagesUnesco Retrieved 21 January 2012 Karl Gerstner - The Spirit of colors: the art of Karl Gerstner : nine picture chapters and selected essays (1981) 225 pagesMIT Press Retrieved 21 January 2012 Octavio Autpaz; Iris Barry; Daniele Lavallee; Jean Paul Barbier; Conceicao, G. Correa (2000) - Pre-Columbian America: Ritual Arts of the New World Henri Stierlin;Skira, Publication Date:2000 1996 - 2011 AbeBooks Inc. All Rights Reserved Retrieved 23 September 2011
See also Persepolis Achaemenid Islamic Art Sassanid architecture
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