Ernst gombrich the story of art7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Throughout his life Gombrich maintained a deep love and knowledge of classical music. Adolf Busch and members of the Busch Quartet regularly met and played in the family home. ![]() She also knew Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf and Johannes Brahms. ![]() However, rather than follow a career as a concert pianist (which would have been difficult to combine with her family life in this period) she became an assistant of Theodor Leschetizky. His father was a lawyer and former classmate of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and his mother was a distinguished pianist who graduated from the Vienna Conservatoire with the School's Medal of Distinction.Īt the Conservatoire she was a pupil of, amongst others, Anton Bruckner. The son of Karl Gombrich and Leonie Hock, Gombrich was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, into an assimilated bourgeois family of Jewish origin who were part of a sophisticated social and musical milieu. Gombrich was the author of many works of cultural history and art history, most notably The Story of Art, a book widely regarded as one of the most accessible introductions to the visual arts, and Art and Illusion, a major work in the psychology of perception that influenced thinkers as diverse as Carlo Ginzburg, Nelson Goodman, Umberto Eco, and Thomas Kuhn. Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich OM CBE FBA ( / ˈ ɡ ɒ m b r ɪ k/ German: 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936, became a naturalised British citizen in 1947 and spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. ![]()
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