Rudolf Arnheim
Rudolf Arnheim · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Pioneer of the psychology of art and visual perception
1904, Berlin, Germany — 2007, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Germany · Italy · USA
Rudolf Arnheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Pioneer of the psychology of art and visual perception
Arnheim was a German-born perceptual psychologist and art theorist who applied Gestalt psychology to visual art, most influentially in Art and Visual Perception (1954), showing how the eye and mind actively organize form, balance and composition. He fled Nazi Germany and later taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan. He was Jewish.
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Pioneer of the psychology of art and visual perception
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
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