Oct 15, 2020 | History of the Warburg
Before the current Warburg Institute building was built in the late 1950s a strip of Georgian houses used to occupy the land. The surrounding area underwent a transformation during this time, as the university grew and occupied an area of land that had previously been...
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...
Jun 4, 2020 | History of the Warburg, Research
This week, Paul Kaplan, Professor of Art History at Purchase College, delivered his online presentation The Other Warburg: Aby’s African American Cousin Eugène and his Career as a Sculptor in 1850s Europe as part of the Warburg Institute’s free online...
May 12, 2020 | History of the Warburg, Research
Almost 130 years ago Hamburg experienced a cholera epidemic which took the lives of 10,000 citizens in a matter of six weeks. In response to this, a publication was produced with the proceeds going to those who had been affected by the outbreak. Aby Warburg...
