Mar 11, 2021 | Aby Warburg, Research, Studying
On 10 August 1905, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) sent a cablegram from Brussels to his wife, Mary Warburg (1866-1934), which read ‘good journey, arrived safely.’[1] The twofold aim of this trip was for Warburg to work at the Royal Library of Belgium and to attend the...
Sep 23, 2020 | Aby Warburg, Events and Exhibitions, History of the Warburg
This autumn Warburg’s original working materials for his legendary Bilderatlas Mnemosyne have returned to Germany in two very special exhibitions. For the first time since 1929, all 63 panels of the Bilderatlas have been reconstructed using Warburg’s original...
Jul 9, 2020 | Aby Warburg, History of the Warburg, Research
In 1935, the anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) wrote to the Warburg Institute from Columbia University with an inquiry on the theme of gesture, sparking a series of letters currently held at the Warburg Institute Archive. In this blog post, Anna Speyart discusses...
Jun 17, 2020 | Aby Warburg, History of the Warburg, Research
On 19 November 1923, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) sent a letter from the Bellevue sanatorium in Kreuzlingen to congratulate his youngest child, Frede Warburg (1904-2004), on her upcoming nineteenth birthday. He wrote to her after reading a feuilleton in the daily newspaper...
