Pevsner

American  

[pevz-ner, pyef-snyir] / ˈpɛvz nər, ˈpyɛf snyɪr /

noun

1. Antoine 1886–1962, French sculptor and painter, born in Russia (brother of Naum Gabo).

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Pevsner British  

/ ˈpɛvznə /

noun

1. Antoine (ɑ̃twan). 1886–1962, French constructivist sculptor and painter, born in Russia; brother of Naum Gabo

2. Sir Nikolaus (ˈnɪkəlaʊs). 1902–83, British architectural historian, born in Germany: his series Buildings of England (1951–74) describes every structure of account in the country

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Example Sentences

It's at Matlock Bath that I meet architectural historian Clare Hartwell, who has just finished revising the 1951 Pevsner guide to Derbyshire.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2017

The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called the Brownian landscape park “England’s greatest contribution to the visual arts.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2016

In 1958, the poet Sir John Betjeman and the architecture guru Nikolaus Pevsner set up the Victorian Society to save the glories of the age from destruction.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2013

Set in the Northumberland landscape near the market town of Rothbury, it was called by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner "the most dramatic Victorian mansion in the North of England."

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2013

A comprehensively informed, exhaustively organized scholar, who taught at both Cambridge and Oxford, Pevsner supervised and contributed to a multivolume history of world art.

From Time Magazine Archive