Never happy to be the disciple of only one scholar, Gombrich also attended lectures by Josef Strzygowski, Schlosser's egotistical arch rival, at the competing Wiener Institut in Vienna. His interest in art history affirmed, Gombrich entered the University of Vienna in 1928 where he studied under the so-called Vienna School art historians, Hans Tietze, Karl Maria Swoboda, and Julius von Schlosser, the latter with whom he wrote his dissertation was on the Mannerist architecture of Giulio Romano. Returning to Vienna, Gombrich was attended the Theresianum secondary school where at age 14 he wrote an essay on the ways art appreciation had changed from Winckelmann to the present. As a child immediately after World War I, when starvation in Austria was widespread, he and his sister, Lisbeth (1907-1994), were sent by the Save the Children (organization) to live with families in Sweden for nine months in 1920. Gombrich himself never claimed any religious affiliation. The family had originally been Jewish but converted to Lutheranism at the turn of the 20th century. Gombrich himself was an accomplished cellist. His father, Karl Gombrich (1874-1950), was the vice-president of the Disciplinary Council of the Austrian Bar, and his mother, Leonie Hock (Gombrich) (1873-1968), was a pianist who had studied under the composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) and taught piano to Gustav Mahler's sister. Gombrich grew up within one of the elite cultural circles of Vienna. University of London professor of art history, champion of psychological-approach to art.
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