Arnold Hauser (art historian), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Arnold Hauser (art historian)

Hungarian art historian

Date of Birth: 08-May-1892

Place of Birth: Timișoara, Timiș County, Romania

Date of Death: 28-Jan-1978

Profession: art historian, sociologist, philosopher

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Arnold Hauser (8 May 1892 in Timisoara – 28 January 1978 in Budapest) was a Hungarian-German art historian who was perhaps the leading Marxist in the field.
He wrote on the influence of change in social structures on art.
His The Social History of Art (1951) argued that art—which, after a paleolithic period of naturalism, began as "flat, symbolic, formalized, abstract and concerned with spiritual beings"—became more realistic and naturalistic as societies became less hierarchical and authoritarian, and more mercantile and bourgeois (Harrington).