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Obituary

Richard Wollheim (1923-2003)

by Lisa Sangoi

Richard Wollheim, a philosopher whose aesthetic insights are considered among the more profound of the postwar era, has died at his home in London at the age of 80. A statement released by the philosophy department of the University of California at Berkeley said the cause was heart failure. Professor Wollheim was the department’s chairman from 1998 to 2002.

Rather unusually for an analytic philosopher, Professor Wollheim fused analytic philosophy, psychoanalysis and the study of painting to explore art. He coined the term Minimalism in his 1965 essay ‘Minimal Art’.

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