E. H. Gombrich (1909–2001)
Author of The Story of Art
About the Author
Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, born March 30, 1909, in Vienna, Austria, was educated at Vienna University where he earned a Ph.D. His career includes terms as Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford and Cambridge universities and as Andrew D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University. Gombrich's show more books on art and art history have sold as well as some works of fiction. One of his most popular titles is The Story of Art, which has been translated into 18 languages and sold more than two million copies. Other titles are; Looking for Answers: Conversations on Art and Science (with Didier Eribon), Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art, and Gombrich on Art and Psychology. His numerous awards include the Erasmus Prize in 1975, the Hegel Prize in 1976, and the International Balzan Prize in 1985. He holds honorary degrees from various universities, among them Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard, and from the Royal College of Art (London), 1981. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by E. H. Gombrich
The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art (The Wrightsman Lectures, V. 9) (1979) 175 copies
Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art (National Gallery London Publications) (1995) 97 copies
Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography, With a Memoir on the History of the Library by F. Saxl (1970) 69 copies
L'ART ET SON HISTOIRE.TOME 1. 3 copies
Cuatro teorías sobre la expresión artística: Y otros escritos sobre el relativismo cultural (2021) 2 copies
Papers given on the occasion of the dedication of The Last Supper (after Leonardo), Magdalen College Oxford, 10 March… (1993) 2 copies
The Tradition of General Knowledge 2 copies
ı ı ð ø ʻ 1 copy
“Verdade e estereótipo”. In: Arte e ilusão – um estudo da psicologia da representação pictórica 1 copy
Il genio e le passioni : Leonardo e il Cenacolo : precedenti, innovazioni, riflessi di un capolavoro (2001) 1 copy
Resimde anlam sorunu 1 copy
Occasions 1 copy
Hegel ve Sanat Tarihi 1 copy
Decoração: teoria e prática 1 copy
Autobiografia 1 copy
A Brush With History (IV/23) 1 copy
Gombrich Ernst 1 copy
Før - nu 1 copy
Historia del Arte 1 copy
Historia del Arte 3 1 copy
Associated Works
Leonardo da Vinci : Hayward Gallery, London : 26 January to 16 April 1989 (1989) — Preface — 33 copies
Johan Huizinga 1872-1972 : papers delivered to the Johan Huizinga conference Groningen 11-15 december 1972 (1973) — Contributor — 4 copies
Nykyestetiikan ongelmia antologia 2 copies
Philipp P. Fehl Kunsthistoriker und Kuenstler Storico dell' Arte e Artista (2002) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Gombrich, E. H.
- Legal name
- Gombrich, Ernst Hans Josef
- Other names
- Gombrich, Prof. Sir Ernst
- Birthdate
- 1909-03-30
- Date of death
- 2001-11-03
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Austria-Hungary (birth)
UK (naturalize citizenship|1947) - Country (for map)
- UK
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Vienna, Austria
London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK - Education
- Theresianum (Vienna)
University of Vienna (Ph.D|1933) - Occupations
- art historian
Director of the Warburg Institute (1959-1976)
professor (1959-1972) - Relationships
- Gombrich, Richard F. (son)
Gombrich, Ilse Heller (wife) - Organizations
- Warburg Institute, University of London (staff|1936|director and professor of the history of the classical tradition|1959|retired|1976)
- Awards and honors
- British Academy (fellow | 1960)
W. H. Smith Prize for Literature (1964)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1966)
Knight Bachelor of the British Empire (1972)
Erasmus Prize (1975)
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art (1st class | 1975) (show all 20)
Hegel Prize (1976)
Pour le mérite für Wissenschaft und Künste (1977)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1985)
Balzan Prize for History of Western Art (1985)
City of Vienna (Prize for Humanities | 1986 | gold medal | 1994)
Order of Merit (1988)
Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize (1988)
Goethe Prize (1994)
Leverhulme Medal (2002)
Royal Society of Literature
Society of Antiquaries (fellow)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1964)
American Philosophical Society (1968)
Pour le Mérite (1977)
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Statistics
- Works
- 77
- Also by
- 10
- Members
- 11,180
- Popularity
- #2,110
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 113
- ISBNs
- 441
- Languages
- 23
- Favorited
- 15