Henri Stierlin

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.

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.

• Splendour of an Islam World (1997) 219 pages • Hindu India: from Khajuraho to the temple city of Madurai (1998) 237 pages • Turkey: from the Selçuks to the Ottomans (1998) 237 pages • Islamic art and architecture (2002) 319 pages

• Pedro Ramirez Vasquez - Living architecture: Mayan (1964) 192 pages • Hiroshi Daifuku, Philipe Stern, Ta-kuan Chou, Madeleine Giteau, Son Soubert, Luc Ionesco - S.O.S. Angkor (1971) 42 pages • Karl Gerstner - The Spirit of colors: the art of Karl Gerstner: nine picture chapters and selected essays (1981) 225 pages • Octavio Autpaz; Iris Barry; Daniele Lavallee; Jean Paul Barbier; Conceicao, G. Correa (2000) - Pre-Columbian America: Ritual Arts of the New World Henri Stierlin;

Henri Stierlin is recorded with the occupation art historian. Recorded as art historian, journalist and photographer.