Nikolaus pevsner biography of mahatma

Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon(1902–83). German-born British art-historian. He was a strong supporter of the Modern Movement, which gave some of his early writings an undoubted bias, notably the very influential Pioneers of the Modern Movement from William Morris to Walter Gropius(1936, later reissued as Pioneers of Modern Design) and the enormously successful (and again influential) An Outline of European Architecture(1942 with many subsequent editions).

He had a powerful impact on the Architectural Review) in the 1940s, when it became a pro-Modern-Movement force, and changed the architectural climate of Britain. He originated and edited the Pelican History of Art(from 1953), one of the most impressive series on art and architecture published in C20.

His greatest achievement was arguably the county-by-county guides of The Buildings of England(from 1951), much of which he wrote himself, although some of his highly subjective comment