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E. H. Gombrich (1909–2001)

Author of The Story of Art

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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 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)
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The Story of Art 4,350 copies, 33 reviews
A Little History of the World 3,164 copies, 57 reviews
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation 1,021 copies, 6 reviews
Meditations On a Hobby Horse and Other Essays On the Theory of Art 182 copies
The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art (The… 167 copies
Norm and Form 156 copies
Symbolic Images 137 copies
Art, Perception, and Reality 108 copies, 1 review
The Essential Gombrich 95 copies
The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial ... 90 copies, 1 review
Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art (National Gallery… 87 copies, 1 review
The Uses of Images 76 copies, 1 review
The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste… 74 copies, 1 review
The Heritage of Apelles 74 copies, 1 review
New Light On Old Masters 65 copies, 1 review
Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography, With a Memoir on the History of… 62 copies, 1 review
Ideals & Idols: Essays On Values in History and in Art 59 copies
Illusion in Nature and Art (Editor; Contributor) 42 copies
Caricature 37 copies
In Search of Cultural History 37 copies
Tributes : interpreters of our cultural tradition 34 copies
Topics of Our Time 30 copies
Arte e progresso. Storia e influenza di un'idea 25 copies
Reflections on the History of Art: Views and Reviews 25 copies
Freud e la psicologia dell'arte 22 copies, 1 review
Ce que l'image nous dit : Entretiens sur l'art et la science 19 copies
Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser: Von den Anfängen bis… 13 copies
Looking for Answers: Conversations on Art and Science 12 copies
A Lifelong Interest: Conversations on Art and Science 12 copies
Means and Ends: Reflections on the History of Fresco Painting 12 copies
Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser: Von der Renaissance bis… 10 copies
Kokoschka in His Time: Lecture (Tate modern masters) 7 copies
La evidencia de las imágenes 6 copies, 1 review
Art history and the social sciences 5 copies
A.Games: Sixty Years of Design 4 copies
Dal mio tempo. Città, maestri, incontri 3 copies
L'ART ET SON HISTOIRE.TOME 1. 3 copies
Henri Cartier-Bresson 3 copies
Kunst und Kritik 3 copies
L'Art et son histoire, des origines à nos jours Tome 2 3 copies
Reneszánsz tanulmányok 2 copies
Gombrich on Shadows [VHS] 2 copies
Künstler, Kenner, Kunden : [Vortrag im Wiener Rathaus am 20. Mai 1992] 2 copies
Tete a Tete, I ritratti di Henri CartieBressson 2 copies
Cuatro teorías sobre la expresión artística: Y otros escritos sobre el… 2 copies
J체dische Identit채t und j체disches Schicksal : eine… 2 copies
Image and code 2 copies
The Tradition of General Knowledge 2 copies
Das forschende Auge: Kunstbetrachtung und Naturwahrnehmung 2 copies
Papers given on the occasion of the dedication of The Last Supper (after… 2 copies
A Lifelong Interest: Conversations on Art and Science with Didier Eribo 2 copies
Kunst og billedsprog 1 copy
Breve historia del mundo. Edición ilustrada (Spanish Edition) 1 copy
The Cartoonist's Armory 1 copy
Tras la historia de la cultura 1 copy
Mirror and Map: Theories of Pictorial Representation. Review Lecture.… 1 copy
Essays in honor of Hans Tietze, 1880-1954 1 copy
Historia e shkurtër e botës 1 copy, 1 review
“Verdade e estereótipo”. In: Arte e ilusão – um estudo da… 1 copy
Giulio Romano / Il Palazzo del Te 1 copy
Reflections on the Greek Revolution 1 copy
Oskar Kokoschka : October - November 1966, Marlborough - Gerson 1 copy
A Brush With History (IV/23) 1 copy
Autobiografia 1 copy
Gombrich Ernst 1 copy
The ideas of progress and their impact on art 1 copy
Før - nu 1 copy
Decoração: teoria e prática 1 copy
Hegel ve Sanat Tarihi 1 copy
Ideal und Typus in der italienischen Renaissancemalerei… 1 copy
There really is no such thing as Art, there are onlyl artists 1 copy
Nature and art as needs of the mind 1 copy
Il genio e le passioni : Leonardo e il Cenacolo : precedenti, innovazioni,… 1 copy
Resimde anlam sorunu 1 copy
Arte e pubblico. Artisti, esperti, clienti 1 copy
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Canonical name
Gombrich, E. H.
Legal name
Gombrich, Ernst Hans Josef
Other names
Gombrich, Prof. Sir Ernst
Date of birth
1909-03-30
Date of death
2001-11-03
Burial location
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
Cause of death
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)
Agents
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)
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