Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE (30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who became a naturalized British citizen in 1947.[1] He spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. He is the author of many works of cultural history and art history, including The Story of Art, a book widely regarded as one of the most accessible introductions to the visual arts.
BiographyThe 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. His father was a lawyer and former classmate of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and his mother was distinguished pianist who graduated from the Vienna Conservatoire with the School's Medal of Distinction. At the Conservatoire she was a pupil of, amongst others, Anton Bruckner. 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. She also knew Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf and Johannes Brahms [3]. Rudolf Serkin was a close family friend. Adolf Busch and members of the Busch Quartet regularly met and played in the family home. Throughout his life Gombrich maintained a deep love and knowledge of classical music. He was a competent cellist and in later life at home in London regularly played the chamber music of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and others with his wife and elder sister Dea Forsdyke, a concert violinist.
Gombrich was educated at Theresianum Secondary School and at Vienna University before coming to Britain in 1936, where he took up a post as a research assistant at the Warburg Institute, University of London. In 1936, he married Ilse Heller, a pupil of his mother, and herself an accomplished pianist. Their only child, Richard, went on to become a noted Indologist and scholar of Buddhism, acting as the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University from 1976 to 2004.
During World War II, Gombrich worked for the BBC World Service, monitoring German radio broadcasts. When in 1945 an upcoming announcement was prefaced by a Bruckner symphony written for Wagner's death, Gombrich guessed correctly that Hitler was dead and promptly broke the news to Churchill. He returned to the Warburg Institute in November 1945, where he became Senior Research Fellow (1946), Lecturer (1948), Reader (1954), and eventually Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition and director of the institute (1959–72). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1960, made CBE in 1966, knighted in 1972, and appointed a member of the Order of Merit in 1988. He was the recipient of numerous additional honours, including Goethe Prize 1994 and Balzan Prize in 1985 for History of Western Art.
Gombrich was close to a number of Austrian émigrés who fled to the West prior to the Anschluss, among them Karl Popper (to whom he was especially close), Friedrich Hayek and Max Perutz. He was instrumental in bringing to publication Popper's magnum opus The Open Society and Its Enemies. Each had known the other only fleetingly in Vienna, as Gombrich's father served his law apprenticeship with Popper's father. They became lifelong friends in exile.
[edit] WorkGombrich's first book, and the only one he did not write in English, was Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser (A short history of the world for young readers), published in Germany in 1936. It was very popular and translated into several languages, but was not available in English until 2005, when a translation of a revised edition was published as A Little History of the World. He did most of this translation and revision himself, and it was completed by his long-time assistant and secretary Caroline Mustill and his granddaughter Leonie Gombrich after his death [4].
The Story of Art, first published in 1950 and currently in its 16th edition, is widely regarded as one of the most accessible introductions to the history of visual arts. Originally intended for adolescent readers, it has sold millions of copies and been translated into more than 30 languages.
Other major publications include Art and Illusion (1960), regarded by critics to be his most influential and far-reaching work, and the essays gathered in Meditations on a Hobby Horse (1963) and The Image and the Eye (1981). Other important books are Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order (1979) and The Preference for the Primitive (posthumously in 2002). The complete list of his publications, E.H. Gombrich: A Bibliography, was published by Joseph Burney Trapp in 2000.
The most famous and popular book on art ever published, this quintessential "introduction to art" has been a worldwide bestseller for over four decades. In this completely redesigned 16th edition, Gombrich, a true master, combines knowledge and wisdom with a unique gift for communicating his deep love of the subject. 440 illustrations, 376 in color.
在我到今天为止的阅读过程中,有三本书是无论如何都绝不愿意错过的,它们分别是罗素的西方哲学史,曼昆的经济学原理,和贡布里希的艺术的故事。 (虽然真的这样一本正经的把这三本没什么联系的书排列在一起让我觉得自己有点傻气)但对一个,算不上聪明,又懒,又缺乏基础知识...
評分从文艺复兴开始,简单的做了点笔记。 作者认为:“没有艺术这回事,只有艺术家而已。”所以全书尤其是到了文艺复兴时期以后基本是从单个艺术家来分析他们的作画信念和特点。我简单的笔记也是到了记载十九世纪的画家开始才用一点点文字概括了这个画家的特点或是信念。然后作者也...
評分贡布里希在《艺术的故事》导论中,第一句话就说:“实际上没有艺术这种东西,只有艺术家而已。”是否可以演绎一下:在产品设计领域,没有设计师这种东西,只有设计而已。 【原文,含图,欢迎交流:http://www.naowan.com/archives/2009/06/12/507】 最让设计师崩溃的事情,是...
評分比较了李春的《西方美术史》教程和德比奇等人著的《西方艺术史》,就是贡布里希给我的收获最大。也难怪会有出到十六版,要不是他在1995年过世,我们还会看到他最新的补记呢。 李春的是典型美院式的教材,用马克思主义的唯物史观一一分析了艺术流派和艺术家产生的社会历史条件,...
評分0.“实际上没有艺术这种东西,只有艺术家而已。” ——导论::论艺术和艺术家 正如很多人所认为的,艺术应该是美的创造活动,因此,有了“纯艺术”的说法。但实际上,艺术无论从其起源还是从其内容来讲,都不应该仅仅看重如今叱诧着风云的所谓“艺术家”们。 诚然,那些独具创...
新玩具。/ 電子書哇。。纍死老子瞭。。不知道 @和尚不 的書單處理得怎麼樣瞭。。
评分Holding thousands of years, the whole Europe and many styles together, and forming a consistent, inspriational and interesting sotry. Remarkable.
评分毫無疑問,最喜歡的還是文藝復興時期。
评分我也沒想到自己能堅持下來。算是我的美術史啓濛瞭。
评分印刷好贊!可惜詞匯量太傷人……
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