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The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

Ernst Gombrich

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Ernst Gombrich
Age: 92 †
Born: 1909
Born: March 30
Died: 2001
Died: November 3
Aesthetician
Art Historian
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Professor
Writer
Vienna
Austria
E. H. Gombrich
Sir Ernst Gombrich
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich
Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich
Enrst Hans Gombrich
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