![]() ![]() 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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