Gombrich on Strzygowski

Abstract

This is a transcript of a brief conversation between the author and the late Sir Ernst Gombrich on the subject of Josef Strzygowski as a human being based on his experiences as a student in Vienna. It has been supplemented by two obituaries and a pdf of the publications of Strzygowski’s First Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna.

Keywords

• Josef Strzygowski
• Nazism
• anti-Semitism
• global art history