Anton Ehrenzweig

Anton Ehrenzweig (b.1908 d.1966) a trained lawyer who was very interested in modern art and modern music and who abandoned his formal career after fleeing Austria after the "Anschluss" with Germany in 1938. He studied law, psychology and art in Vienna and settled in England in 1938. He was a lecturer in Art Education at Goldsmith College, University of London. He wrote "The Psychoanalysis of Artistic Vision and Hearing" (1953) [Ehrenzweig A (1953) "The Psychoanalysis of Artistic Vision and Hearing" New York, Geo Braziller] and "The Hidden Order of Art" (1967) [Ehrenzweig A (1967) "The Hidden Order of Art" Paladin] . He also published numerous articles [Ehrenzweig A (1949)'The Origin of the Scientific and Heroic Urge' "Intern J Psychoanal" 30/2, 1949] [Ehrenzweig A (1960) 'Alienation versus Self-Expression' "The Listener" LXIII 1613 1960] [Ehrenzweig A (1964) 'The Undifferentiated Matrix of Artistic Imagination' "The Psychoanalytic Study of Society" III 1964] [Ehrenzweig A (1965) 'Towards a Theory of Art Education' (A Report) Goldsmiths College University of London] [Ehrenzweig A (1965) 'Bridget Riley's pictorial Space' "Art International" IX/I 1965] . His ideas can be summarized as the discovery of the organizing role of the unconscious mind in any act of creativity & an analysis of the layered structure of the unconscious mind & of the dynamic mental processes which an artist undergoes in the creative act.

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