Ernst Gombrich
Ernst Gombrich · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Author of The Story of Art, the world's most-read art history book
1909, Vienna, Austria — 2001, London, England
Austria · United Kingdom
Ernst Gombrich is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Author of The Story of Art, the world's most-read art history book
Ernst Gombrich was an art historian whose 'The Story of Art' (1950) became the most widely read introduction to art history in the world, and whose 'Art and Illusion' reshaped the theory of pictorial representation. He directed the Warburg Institute in London. He was of Jewish descent — his Viennese family had converted to Protestantism — and emigrated to Britain to escape Nazism.
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Author of The Story of Art, the world's most-read art history book
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
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