Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich





Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich

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born
March 30, 1909 in Austria

died
November 03, 2001

gender
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Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE (30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian, who spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom.



Average rating: 3.90 · 10720 ratings · 455 reviews · 63 distinct works
The Story of Art
3.86 of 5 stars 386 avg rating — 8404 ratings — published 1950 — 54 editions
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A Little History of the World
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4.03 of 5 stars 403 avg rating — 1830 ratings — published 1935 — 41 editions
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Art and Illusion: A Study i...
4.1 of 5 stars 410 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 1960 — 11 editions
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The Essential Gombrich
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Meditations On a Hobby Hors...
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The Sense of Order (Wrights...
3.96 of 5 stars 396 avg rating — 27 ratings5 editions
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Norm and Form: On the Renai...
3.95 of 5 stars 395 avg rating — 21 ratings5 editions
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Symbolic Images
4.26 of 5 stars 426 avg rating — 19 ratings6 editions
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Art, Perception, and Reality
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3.83 of 5 stars 383 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions
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The Uses of Images
4.06 of 5 stars 406 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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More books by Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich…
“Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.”
Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, Art and illusion

“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.”
Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, The Story of Art

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