# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/holger-cahill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:08:16.247Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/holger-cahill"
name: "Holger Cahill"
slug: "holger-cahill"
description: "Sveinn Kristján Bjarnarsson, also known as Edgar Holger Cahill, was an Icelandic-American curator, writer and arts administrator. He served as the national director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal in the United States."
tagline: "Iceland-born American curator (1887–1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Holger-Cahill-1938.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1887-01-13"
deathDate: "1960-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.604572
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "إدغار هولغر كاهيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B1_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "ادقار هولقر كاهیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Cahill"
    title: "Holger Cahill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Cahill"
    title: "Holger Cahill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Cahill"
    title: "Holger Cahill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5880218"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump