Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation | Characters
Gertrud Bing
Gertrud Bing was Fritz Saxl’s assistant and a close associate of Gombrich. She is noted for writing the introduction to the Italian translation of Aby Warburg’s papers.
Karl Bühler
Gombrich recalls in autobiographical writing that the work of Karl Bühler was an important influence on his own thinking, especially in Art and Illusion. Bühler was a professor of psychology in Vienna during the 1920s and 1930s. In addition, he was an early writer on the Gestalt theory of thinking, which worked its way into the theory of art through...
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