biography
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Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus (Bernhard Leon)
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| (1902–83)
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| biography:
| Art historian, born in Leipzig, EC Germany. He was lecturer in art at Göttingen University until the Nazis came to power (1933), when he fled to Britain and became an authority on English architecture. He wrote the enormously popular book, An Outline of European Architecture (1942), and became art editor of Penguin Books (1949). He produced the monumental series for Penguin Books, The Buildings of England (50 vols, 1951–74), and was professor of fine art at Cambridge (1949–55). He was knighted in 1969. |
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