Jun 12, 2019 | Fellowships, Research
Mesopotamian Ideas Related to Winds and Their Parallels in Western Cultural Tradition Dr Francesca Minen was one of this year’s Henri Frankfort Short-Term Fellows. Whilst conducting her research, Francesca decided to resume a previous research interest thanks to...
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...
