| Code | DS/UK/1479 |
| Dates | 26/04/1900 - 27/02/1957 |
| Person Name | Kris; Ernst (26/04/1900 - 27/02/1957); Dr.phil. |
| Surname | Kris |
| Forenames | Ernst |
| Title | Dr.phil. |
| Activity | Art Historian. Assistant at Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; custos at the collection of Plastics and Arts and Crafts (1927-); editor of 'Imago' (psychological magazine); Senior Research Officer with the BBC (1938-1940); Visiting Professor at New York School for Social Research, New York; Director of postgradual studies at Psychological Institute N.Y.. |
| Relationships | Son of Leopold Kris and Rosa Kris, née Schick; brother Paul; married Marianne Rie (1927), children: Anna Wolff and Anton. |
| History | Studied History of Art, History, Archaeology, Psychology in Vienne (1918-1922); doctoral dissertation (1926); education in psychoanalyse (-1927); emigrated to England (1938) and USA (1940). |
| Source | Wendland, Ulrike, Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil, Vol.1, Munich 1999, pp. 387-392; Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, p. 71; Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, p. 89 mentioned, 93; Gombrich, Ernst. "The Study of Art and the Study of Man: Reminiscences of Collaboration with Ernst Kris." Tributes: Interpreters of our Cultural Tradition. Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984, pp. 220-233; Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, p. 327. |
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