Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, CBE, (January 30, 1902 – August 18, 1983) was a German-born British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Art history is the Academic study of objects of Art in their Historical development and stylistic contexts i The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation He is best known for his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951-74), one of the great achievements of 20th century art scholarship.
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Life
The son of a Jewish merchant, Pevsner was born in Leipzig, Saxony. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ This sort of fix restores section edit linkpoints to where they belong The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen ˈzaksən Swobodny Stat Sakska is the easternmost federal state of Germany. He studied art history at the Universities of Leipzig, Munich, Berlin, and Frankfurt/Main in Germany (PhD 1924), worked at the Dresden Gallery (1924–28) and taught at Göttingen University (1929–33). Art history is the Academic study of objects of Art in their Historical development and stylistic contexts i This sort of fix restores section edit linkpoints to where they belong Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Dresden (etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Drježdźany is the Capital city of the German Göttingen ( ˈgœtɪŋən, Low German: Chöttingen is a College town in Lower Saxony, Germany. According to Games (2002), he was an admirer of some of the economic policies of the early Hitler regime, but was caught up in the ban on Jews being employed by the Nazi state shortly after Hitler's accession to power and was required to step down from Göttingen in May 1933. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Later that year he moved to England where friends found him a research post at the University of Birmingham. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a British red brick University located in the city of Birmingham [1] In the early 1940s he joined the academic staff at Birkbeck College, University of London, becoming a professor, and was later a visiting lecturer at both the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford. Birkbeck University of London, sometimes referred to by its former (and still legal name Birkbeck College or by the abbreviation BBK, is a constituent college The University of London is a university based primarily in London, England, UK. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the He assumed British citizenship in 1946.
After moving to England, Pevsner found that the study of architectural history had little status in academic circles, and the amount of information available, especially to travellers wanting to inform themselves about the architecture of a particular district, was limited. The History of architecture traces the changes in the History of Architecture through various countries and dates He conceived a project to write a series of comprehensive county guides to rectify this, and gained the backing of Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, for whom he had written his Outline of European Architecture. Sir Allen Lane ( 21 September 1902 &ndash 7 July 1970) (born Allen Lane Williams) was a British Publisher who Penguin Books is a British Publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Work on the Buildings of England series began in 1945, and the first volume was published in 1951. Pevsner wrote 32 of the books himself and 10 with collaborators, with a further 4 of the original series written by others. Since his death, work has continued on the series, which has been extended to cover the rest of the United Kingdom, under the title Pevsner Architectural Guides. The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of Guide books to the Architecture of the United Kingdom. As well as The Buildings of England, Pevsner conceived and edited the Pelican History of Art series (1953–), many individual volumes of which are regarded as classics.
In 1958, Pevsner was invited to become founder chairman of The Victorian Society, the national charity for the study and protection and Victorian and Edwardian architecture and other arts. The Victorian Society is the national charity responsible for the study and protection of Victorian and Edwardian architecture and other arts in Britain He was also an early an active member of the Georgian Group founded in 1937. The Georgian Group is an English and Welsh conservation organisation created to campaign for the preservation of historic buildings and planned landscapes of the 18th
He died in London in 1983 and his memorial service was held at the Church of Christ the King, Bloomsbury the following December. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The Church of Christ the King is an Anglican Church situated on Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, beside the Dr Williams's
Papers
Research papers and correspondence relating to Pevsner's first job in a British university, after leaving Germany, can be found at the University of Birmingham Special Collections but are as yet uncatalogued. The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a British red brick University located in the city of Birmingham A substantial collection of his papers is held at the Pevsner archive in the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
Notable ideas and theories
- "A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. Lincoln Cathedral (in full The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, or sometimes St Nearly everything that encloses space on a scale sufficient for a human being to move in is a building; the term architecture applies only to buildings designed with a view to aesthetic appeal. "
From An Outline of European Architecture, 1943. Pevsner also described the three ways aesthetic appeal could manifest itself in architecture: in a building's façade, the material volumes or the interior.
Selected bibliography
- Academies of Art, Past and Present (1940)
- An Outline of European Architecture (1943)
- Pioneers of Modern Design (1949; originally published in 1936 under the title Pioneers of the Modern Movement)
- The Buildings of England (1951-74)
- The Englishness of English Art (1956)
- The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design (1968)
- A History of Building Types (1976)
- Pevsner on Art and Architecture: the Radio Talks, edited and introduced by Stephen Games, (Methuen, 2003)
Notes
- ^ BUZZ (2005)
References
- BUZZ (2005) A landlady in a million?, Snapshots of days gone by, Online newsletter 57, University of Birmingham, p. 10 (accessed 1 August 2007). Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
- Games, Stephen (2002) Pevsner the German, Lecture at Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge 2 December (accessed 1 August 2007). Events 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
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