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- Thomas Pevsner (2 October 1926 – 18 August 2014) was a British assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades. He was the second of three children born to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of Russian Jewish origin. The family emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime. [ 1]
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Thomas Pevsner (2 October 1926 – 18 August 2014) was a British assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades. He was the second of three children born to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner , an architectural historian of Russian Jewish origin.
Jul 21, 2011 · Pevsner was one of many expatriate German scholars who helped shape the physical and cultural landscape of their adopted homes. Like other academics who fled the Nazi regime for England, he pieced together visiting positions at colleges with the help of Britain’s Academic Assistance Council.
Sep 27, 2017 · He was one of a number of Austrian and German art historians who left Nazi Germany for Britain in the 1930s bringing with them the founding methods of art and architectural history and helping to develop the subject as a discipline and to bring it to a wider audience.
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner CBE FBA (30 [a] January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).
Sep 21, 2012 · Pevsner refers to the works of the nineteenthcentury engineers as the third source of the present style, next to the Arts and Crafts movement guided by William Morris and Art Nouveau.
Mar 15, 2015 · Originally published in 1936 as Pioneers of the Modern Movement, this book by the late art historian Nikolaus Pevsner laid the foundation for the recognition of “modern design” by lining up a progressive historical narrative to explain the state of design after World War I.
Jan 13, 2014 · As a young lecturer in Germany in the 1920s, he had planned and developed his working life along entirely orthodox lines, only to see it turn 10 years later into a sequence of art-related odd jobs overseas, connected as often as not by coincidence.
