Rudolf Arnheim (born July 15, 1904) is a German author and theorist of Gestalt perception. His major work is Art and Visual Perception, published in 1954. He suggests ten areas of concern: Balance, Shape, Form, Growth, Space, Light, Color, Movement, Tension, and Expression.

Arnheim has lived and worked in Germany (1904-1933), Italy (1933-1938), London (1939-1940), New York (1941-1968), Cambridge, Massachusetts, (1968-1974) and Ann Arbor, Michigan, (1974-today).

Publications

• 1928: Experimentell-psychologische Untersuchungen zum Ausdrucksproblem. Psychologische Forschung, 11, 2-132.
• 1932: Film als Kunst. Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt. Neuausgaben: 1974, 1979, 2002
• 1943: Gestalt and art. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2, 71-5.
• 1949/1966: The gestalt theory of expression. Toward a Psychology of Art. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
• 1954/1974: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
• 1972/1996: Anschauliches Denken. Zur Einheit von Bild und Begriff. Erstausgabe 1972, nun Köln: DuMont Taschenbuch 1996.
• 1977: The Dynamics of Architectural Form. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
• 1977: Kritiken und Aufsätze zum Film. (Hrsg.: Helmut H. Diederichs) München: Hanser.
• 1979: Radio als Hörkunst. München: Hanser. Neuausgabe: 2001 (Suhrkamp)
• 2004: Die Seele in der Silberschicht. (Hrsg.: Helmut H. Diederichs) Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

External links

• BIOGRAPHY: RUDOLF ARNHEIM by Igor Shteyrenberg
• The Thought, Life and Influence of Rudolf Arnheim
• Rudolf-Arnheim-Forum