Kris, Ernst#
Kris, Ernst, b. Vienna, April 26, 1900, d. New York (USA), Feb. 27, 1957, art historian and psychoanalyst. Studied art history and classical archeology, worked at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna from 1922. Acquainted with S. Freud, training analysis under H. Deutsch, from 1930 member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association (a group of psychoanalysts around S. Freud), together with R. Waelder editor-in-chief of the psychoanalytic magazine "Imago". Emigrated to London, 1938; lived in New York from 1940, child psychologist at Yale University from 1951.