Rudolf Arnheim

Rudolf Arnheim

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1904-07-15
Deathday: 2007-06-09 (102 years old)

Biography

Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 – June 9, 2007) was a German-born writer, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist. He learned Gestalt psychology from studying under Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler at the University of Berlin and applied it to art.

His magnum opus was his book Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954). Other major books by Arnheim have included Visual Thinking (1969), and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (1982). Art and Visual Perception was revised, enlarged and published as a new version in 1974, and it has been translated into fourteen languages. He lived in Germany, Italy, England, and the U.S., where he taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan.

In Art and Visual Perception, he tried to use science to better understand art. In his later book Visual Thinking (1969), Arnheim critiqued the assumption that language goes before perception. For Arnheim, the only access to reality we have is through our senses. Arnheim argued that perception is strongly identified with thinking, and that artistic expression is another way of reasoning. In The Power of the Center, Arnheim addressed the interaction of art and architecture on concentric and grid spatial patterns. He argued that form and content are indivisible, and that the patterns created by artists reveal the nature of human experience.

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Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1904-07-15

Deathday
2007-06-09 (102 years old)

Birth Place
Berlin, Germany

Siblings
Helen Arnheim-Badt

Citizenships
Germany

Awards
Rome Prize, Helmut Käutner Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, honorary doctor of the University of Padua, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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