For decades EH Gombrich inspired readers across the globe. Leonie Gombrich & Rob Newman use his archives to tell the story of a man who taught the world how to see and read art. "There really is no ...

Austrian-British historian E.H. Gombrich did so in 1950 with his best-selling title, The Story of Art. Since then, over eight million copies have been sold and the book has been translated in over 30 ...

When we ask upon what the survival of culture depends, we immediately think of those individuals whose careers exemplify the commitment to the values of high culture. It is curious to what extent the ...

Amid a wealth of events celebrating the bicentenary of John Ruskin’s birth we reconsider the breadth of this Victorian polymath’s achievements, and we talk to two experts in E.H. Gombrich, writer of ...

The late Sir Ernst Gombrich wrote A Little History of the World in 1936, in German. The book tells the story of human kind from the stone age to the atomic bomb and has been translated into 17 ...

EH Gombrich's history of the world for young readers became an instant success when first published in Austria in 1935. The author was a 26-year-old unemployed graduate when, armed with an ...

A Viennese who found sanctuary in England before the Second World War, E. H. Gombrich established his international reputation as director of the Warburg Institute of the University of London. His ...