Ernst Gombrich

Austrian art historian (1909-2001) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 92

Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich 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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2002Leverhulme MedalAward2001Died3 November 20011994Goethe Prize of the City of FrankfurtAward1992Honorary Doctor of the University of Madrid ComplutenseAwardHonorary Doctor of the University of ViennaAward1989Goethe MedalAward1986Prize of the City of Vienna for the HumanitiesAward1985Balzan PrizeAward1984Austrian Decoration for Science and ArtAward1976Hegel PrizeAward1975Erasmus PrizeAward1909Born30 March 1909