Author

Books by E.H. Gombrich

Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who spent most of his working life at the Warburg Institute in London, where he was director from 1959 to 1976. His major academic works include Art and Illusion, The Sense of Order, and Meditations on a Hobby Horse, which developed the theoretical ideas underlying The Story of Art. He was knighted in 1972 and received most of the major prizes in art history and cultural scholarship. The Story of Art, written for a general audience, has sold over eight million copies in more than thirty languages.