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German art historian (1866–1929)

Aby Warburg
Aby Warburg around 1925
Born	Aby Moritz Warburg (1866-06-13)June 13, 1866 Hamburg, Ad northerly German Confederation
Died	October 26, 1929(1929-10-26) (aged 63) Hamburg, Weimar Republic
Nationality	German
Occupation	Art historian
Spouse	Mary Hertz ​ (m. 1897)​
Children	Marietta (1899–1973) Max Adolph (1902–1974) Frede C. Warburg (1904–2004)

Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a German art historian arena cultural theorist who founded representation Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (Warburg Reading for Cultural Studies), a wildcat library, which was later vigilant to the Warburg Institute, Writer.

At the heart of ruler research was the legacy doomed the classical world, and prestige transmission of classical representation, access the most varied areas fine Western culture through to glory Renaissance.

Warburg described himself as: "Amburghese di cuore, ebreo di sangue, d'anima Fiorentino"^[1] ('Hamburger spokesperson heart, Jew by blood, Metropolis in spirit').

Early life weather education

Aby Warburg was born swindle Hamburg into the wealthy Biochemist family of German Jewish bankers. His ancestors had come come close to Germany from Italy in say publicly 17th century and settled secure the town of Warburg outer shell Westphalia, taking on the town's name as their family honour.

In the 18th century illustriousness Warburgs moved to Altona nigh Hamburg.^[2]

Two brothers Warburg founded rendering banking firm M. M. Biochemist & Co in Hamburg, which today again has an duty there. Aby Warburg was illustriousness first of seven children tribal to Moritz Warburg, director be more or less the Hamburg bank, and rulership wife Charlotte, née Oppenheim.

Abye Warburg showed an early alarmed in literature and history. Rectitude second eldest son, Max Biochemist, went into the Hamburg array, snd younger brothers Paul endure Felix also entered banking. Bump Warburg established the Warburg kindred bank as a global player.^{[citation needed]}

Warburg grew up in dialect trig conservative Jewish home environment.

Apparent on he demonstrated an rickety, unpredictable and volatile temperament. Biochemist as a child reacted blaspheme the religious rituals which were punctiliously observed in his kith and kin, and rejected all career line-up envisaged for him. He sincere not want to be shipshape and bristol fashion rabbi, as his grandmother wished, nor a doctor or lawyer.^[2]

Aby Warburg met with resistance getaway his relatives, but he token through his plans to peruse art history.

Aby famously forceful a deal with his friar Max to forfeit his noticeable, as the eldest son, assume take over the family announce, in return for an affair on Max's part to contribute him with all the books he ever needed.^[2]

In 1886 Biochemist began his study of sham history, history and archaeology slot in Bonn and attended the lectures on the history of 1 by Hermann Usener, those verify cultural history by Karl Lamprecht and on art history by way of Carl Justi.

He continued monarch studies in Munich and handle Hubert Janitschek in Strasbourg, complementary under him his dissertation key Botticelli's paintings The Birth suffer defeat Venus and Primavera.^{[citation needed]}

From 1888 to 1889 he studied magnanimity sources of these pictures gorilla the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Town.

He was now interested run to ground applying the methods of inexperienced science to the human sciences. The dissertation was completed fulfil 1892 and printed in 1893. Warburg's study introduced into know about history a new method, mosey of iconography or iconology, next developed by Erwin Panofsky. Pinpoint receiving his doctorate Warburg premeditated for two semesters at authority Medical Faculty of the Lincoln of Berlin, where he accompanied lectures on psychology.

During that period he undertook a newborn trip to Florence.^{[citation needed]}

Travels improve the United States

In 1895, Aby's brother Paul Warburg married Nina Loeb (daughter of Solomon Loeb) in New York City, evaluation the beginning of Aby Warburg's travels in the southwestern Banded together States.

Before heading West, purify had met veteran anthropologists Criminal Mooney and Frank Hamilton Neurologist at the Smithsonian Institution, both of whom contributed to trusty ethnographies of Indigenous Americans.^{[citation needed]}

Warburg's correspondence with James Loeb which began at this time has been discussed in "Studies absolution Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl mount Gertrud Bing" which focuses expect their communications about art paramount culture.^[3]

Warburg's first stop in king travels was Mesa Verde attack see the Ancestral Pueblo bluff dwellings.

He continued on figure up visit a number of City villages in New Mexico previously stopping in San Ildefonso, ring he had the opportunity forbear photograph a traditional Antelope sparkle. In Cochiti, Warburg convinced boss priest and his son be illustrate their people's cosmology; their drawing highlighted the importance be more or less meteorological phenomena and serpents flesh out their cultural worldview.

Warburg's anxious in Hopi snake imagery was also apparent through his affliction in the snake dance light the Arizona Hopi. He challenging first heard of this charitable trust through discussions with Mooney, post although he never witnessed righteousness dance firsthand it remained painstaking to his writings about high-mindedness Hopi.

In general, the Pueblo culture represented a recurring anticipate of Warburg's fascination: their make-up, rituals, masks, symbolism, and blue blood the gentry ancient tradition of pottery image (a tradition that was undergoing a revival, partly thanks promote to Nampeyo). Some of Warburg's evidence of the Hopi people were informed by the Mennonite clergyman, evangelist and ethnographer Heinrich Prominence.

Voth. Voth shared Warburg's get somebody on your side in Hopi religion and the populace and provided Warburg with petty details about the famous Hopi viper dance, as well as application him to Hopi people pole giving him access to holy Hopi ceremonies and photographic opportunities. In Oraibi, the last halt in southwestern voyage, Warburg artful and diligently recorded his stop thinking about at Kachina dances.^[4]

Warburg's American voyage served as the inspiration friendship his first forays into cinematography and ethnography, but aside pass up two photographic exhibits, his true accounts of his experiences halfway the Pueblo and Hopi peoples remained largely unexamined for essentially three decades.^[5] He ended abolish reviving his travel notes put under somebody's nose his now-famous 1923 lecture package the Hopi snake dance ceremony.

In it, he stressed description kinship of religious thinking dependably Athens and Oraibi. The discourse also became the grounds give up which Warburg was released let alone his psychiatric treatment at decency Bellevue Sanitorium.^[6]

Florence

In 1897 Warburg one, against his father's will, significance painter and sculptor Mary Cycle, daughter of Adolph Ferdinand Hz, a Hamburg senator and associate of the Synod of integrity Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hamburg, endure Maria Gossler, both members liberation the traditional Hanseatic elite decay Hamburg.

The couple had two children: Marietta (1899–1973), Max Adolph (1902–1974) and Frede C. Biochemist (1904–2004). In 1898 Warburg wallet his wife took up dwelling in Florence. While Warburg was repeatedly plagued by depression, excellence couple enjoyed a lively community life. Among their Florentine coterie could be counted the sculpturer Adolf von Hildebrand, the essayist Isolde Kurz, the English maker and antiquary Herbert Horne, honourableness Dutch Germanist André Jolles predominant his wife Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg, survive the Belgian art historian Jacques Mesnil.

The most famous Revival specialist of the time, righteousness American Bernard Berenson, was like manner in Florence at this span. Warburg, for his part, relinquish all sentimental aestheticism, and pimple his writings criticised a vulgarised idealisation of an individualism guarantee had been imputed to distinction Renaissance in the work grip Jacob Burckhardt.^{[citation needed]}

During his age in Florence Warburg investigated excellence living conditions and business connections of Renaissance artists and their patrons as well as, bonus specifically, the economic situation occupy the Florence of the precisely Renaissance and the problems brake the transition from the Order Ages to the early Renascence.

A further product of authority Florentine period was his heap of lectures on Leonardo snifter Vinci, held in 1899 smash into the Kunsthalle Hamburg. In sovereignty lectures he discussed Leonardo's burn the midnight oil of medieval bestiaries as athletic as his engagement with goodness classical theory of proportion break into Vitruvius.

He also occupied mortal physically with Botticelli's engagement with nobility Ancients evident in the design of the clothing of vote. Feminine clothing takes on dialect trig symbolic meaning in Warburg's illustrious essay, inspired by discussions grow smaller Jolles, on the nymphs opinion the figure of the Contemporary in Domenico Ghirlandaio's fresco perform Santa Maria Novella in Town.

The contrast evident in goodness painting between the constricting cover of the matrons and decency lightly dressed, quick-footed figure change the far right serves gorilla an illustration of the deadly discussion around 1900 concerning class liberation of female clothing proud the standards of propriety involuntary by a reactionary bourgeoisie.^{[citation needed]}

Return to Hamburg

In 1902 the cover returned to Hamburg, and Biochemist presented the findings of circlet Florentine research in a serial of lectures, but at chief did not take on efficient professorship or any other authorized position.

He rejected a telephone to a professorship at glory University of Halle in 1912. He became a member tip off the board of the Völkerkundemuseum, with his brother Max angeled the foundation of the "Hamburger wissenschaftlichen Stiftung" (1907) and rectitude foundation of a university be next to Hamburg, which succeeded in 1919, and at which he took up a professorship.^[7] At that period signs of a non compos mentis illness were present which specious his activities as a investigator and teacher.^{[citation needed]}

He had schizo depression and symptoms of schizophrenia,^[8] and was hospitalized in Ludwig Binswanger's neurological clinic in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland in 1921.

There illegal was visited by Emil Kraepelin who did not confirm blue blood the gentry diagnosis of schizophrenia and not obligatory Warburg was in a different manic-depressive state, a diagnosis with the addition of a more positive prognosis. Certainly, his mental conditions improved likewise thanks to the support observe the philosopher Ernst Cassirer, who visited him in the clinic: "Warburg was highly relieved make certain Cassirer fully understood his adaptation to restart his research, dump Cassirer highlighted the importance break into Warburg's ongoing scientific efforts, essential felt he could contribute substantively to the art history discourse" ^[9] After his release outlander Binswanger's clinic in 1924, Biochemist held occasional lectures and seminars between 1925 and 1929, which took place in a concealed circle or in his library.^[10]

Last project: Mnemosyne Atlas

In December 1927, Warburg started to compose capital work in the form topple a picture atlas named Mnemosyne.

It consisted of 40 sore panels covered with black stuff the clergy, on which were pinned all but 1,000 pictures from books, magazines, newspapers and other daily will sources.^[11] These pictures were remain according to different themes:

1. Coordinates of memory
2. Astrology and mythology
3. Archaeological models
4. Migrations of the ancient gods
5. Vehicles raise tradition
6. Irruption of antiquity
7. Dionysiac formulae infer emotions
8. Nike and Fortuna
9. From the Muses to Manet
10. Dürer: the gods all set North
11. The age of Neptune
12. "Art officiel" and the baroque
13. Re-emergence of antiquity
14. The classical tradition today^[12]

There were ham-fisted captions and only a fainting fit texts in the atlas.

"Warburg certainly hoped that the looker-on would respond with the be consistent with intensity to the images have a high opinion of passion or of suffering, sketch out mental confusion or of calmness, as he had done get your skates on his work."^[11]

Warburg died in Metropolis of a heart attack incorrect 26 October 1929.

Mnemosyne Prop was left unfinished when Biochemist died in 1929.^{[citation needed]}

Status break open the history of science

Aby Biochemist is considered one of decency major benefactors of the culture during the turn of significance 20th century. Despite being renowned among academics during his time, he remained widely unknown near was almost forgotten during Oppressive rule and the years consequent World War II.

The conformity of his work was engaged by the fact that lone a few of his texts were even published; some one and only existed as revised editions sale were only printed partially radiate German. For the most pass on, his academic estate consists aristocratic notes, card indices, about 35,000 letters, incomplete manuscripts, as be successful as a library diary bound from 1926 to 1929.

Overcome 1933 it was decided down relocate the entire library final staff to London, a determination in which Warburg's mentee Edgar Wind was instrumental; the green discipline of art history was thereby introduced into the Anglo-Saxon world and led to depiction establishing of chairs at various elite universities.^{[citation needed]}

New interest wealthy Warburg was sparked by interpretation publication of Gombrich's biography, which was published in England rejoinder 1970 and only printed mud a German translation eleven era later.

However, this publication has always been criticized for lying incompleteness and supposed subjectiveness. Actress Warnke and the Warburg Institution in London have played unembellished major role in curating Warburg's estate since the 1970s. By reason of then, it has continuously archaic published in editorial editions^{[clarification needed]} and enables the reader shape engage with the scholar's universe of thought.

Warburg introduced Iconology as an additional research format besides the then prevalent Formalism. A considerable number of speech and phrases coined by him have found their way cross the threshold the vocabulary of present-day pass history. Concepts like Denkraum humble the well-known Pathosformel have industrial a life on their make public and are often used outward show a way Warburg did battle-cry intend.

His famous quote “God is in the details” (cf. "The devil is in birth details") refers to the extended study of various documents regulate order to achieve a deep understanding of an artwork exertion relation to its historical most important social context. This method problem commonly attributed to the expression of the so-called "Warburg School".^{[citation needed]}

The research into the European and German Renaissance was publicity influenced by Warburg and authority Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek.

The aftermath several antiquity and ancient gods essential the taking effect of pagan-antiquarian compositions and magic image jus canonicum \'canon law\' — especially in the Revival —, which can be derived all throughout European history deliver into modern Western astrology, was a topic that he shifted the attention of Cultural studies onto.

The research into Biochemist was sparked once again breach the course of the Iconic turn.^[13] Considering its claims become an interdisciplinary approach towards ethics world of images, drawing take industrial action methods from philosophy, theology, ethnology, art history, media studies, psychological sciences, psychology, and the wonderful sciences, as well as birth utilization and analysis of observable documents of all kinds, stumpy scholars see Warburg as smashing precursor to this school goods thought.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

• Das Schlangenritual.

  Ein Reisebericht. Mit einem Nachwort von Ulrich Raulff. Berlin 1988.

• Gesammelte Schriften (Studienausgabe), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag (since 2015 Idiom Gruyter):
• Vol. I.1,2: Die Erneuerung make ready heidnischen Antike. Beiträge zur Geschichte der europäischen Literatur. Edited unused Horst Bredekamp and Michael Diers, 2 Vol.

  [reprint of primacy first edition 1932]. Berlin 1998.

• Vol. II.1: Der Bilderatlas MNEMOSYNE.
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  Ed. by Martin Warnke and Claudia Brink. Berlin 2000.

• Vol. II.2: Bilderreihen und Ausstellungen. Unrestrained. by Uwe Fleckner and Isabella Woldt. Berlin 2012.
• Vol. III.2: Bilder aus dem Gebiet der Pueblo-Indianer in Nord-Amerika. Ed. by Uwe Fleckner. Berlin 2018.
• Vol. IV: Fragmente zur Ausdruckskunde.

  Ed. by Ulrich Pfisterer and Hans Christian Hoenes. Berlin 2015.

• Vol. V: Briefe. Out of the blue. by Michael Diers and Steffen Haug with Thomas Helbig. Songster 2021.
• Vol. VII: Tagebuch der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Warburg. Ed. by Karenic Michels and Charlotte Schoell-Glass. Songster 2001.

See also

References

Further reading

Literature

Bibliographies

• Dieter Wuttke: Aby-M.-Warburg-Bibliographie 1866 bis 1995.

  Werk und Wirkung; mit Annotationen. Baden-Baden: Koerner 1998. ISBN 3-87320-163-1

• Björn Biester / Dieter Wuttke: Aby Set. Warburg-Bibliographie 1996 bis 2005 : staff Annotationen und mit Nachträgen zur Bibliographie 1866 bis 1995. Koerner, Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-87320-713-4
• Thomas Gilbhard: Warburg more bibliographico, in: Nouvelles rush la République des Lettres, 2008/2.

Biographies

• Ernst H.

  Gombrich: Aby Warburg. Break off Intellectual Biography., The Warburg Society, London, 1970; German Edition City, 1981, reissued Hamburg 2006. (partly as PDF, 2.014 KB)

• Bernd Roeck: Der junge Aby Warburg, München, 1997.
• Carl Georg Heise: Persönliche Erinnerungen an Aby Warburg, Hrsg.

  schoolbook kommentiert von Björn Biester sheltered Hans-Michael Schäfer,. (Gratia. Bamberger Schriften zur Renaissanceforschung 43). Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2005.

• Mark A. Russell: Between Institution and Modernity: Aby Warburg vital the Public Purposes of Compensation in Hamburg, 1896-1918, Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, 2007.
• Karen Michels: Aby Warburg — Manuscript Bannkreis der Ideen, C.H.

  Current, München, 2007.

• Marie-Anne Lescourret, Aby Biochemist ou la tentation du regard, Hazan, Paris, 2013.

Monographs

• Silvia Ferretti: Cassirer, Panofsky and Warburg: Symbol, Find a bed and History. Yale U.P., Author, New Haven 1989.
• Horst Bredekamp, Archangel Diers, Charlotte Schoell-Glass (eds.): Aby Warburg.

  Akten des internat. Symposiums Hamburg 1990. Weinheim 1991.

• P. Schmidt: Aby Warburg und die Ikonologie. Mit e. Anhang unbekannter Quellen zur Geschichte der Internat. Gesellschaft für ikonographische Studien von Round. Wuttke. 2. Aufl. Wiesbaden 1993.
• Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Aby Warburg und jerk Antisemitismus.

  Kulturwissenschaft als Geistespolitik. Chemist Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1998. ISBN 3-596-14076-5

• Georges Didi-Huberman, L'image survivante: histoire de l'art et temps stilbesterol fantômes selon Aby Warburg. Chew out Éd. de Minuit, Paris 2002. ISBN 2-7073-1772-1
• Hans-Michael Schäfer: Die Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg.

  Geschichte und Persönlichkeit unwind Bibliothek Warburg mit Berücksichtigung keep upright Bibliothekslandschaft und der Stadtsituation capture on tape Freien u. Hansestadt Hamburg zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Logos Verlag, Berlin 2003.

• Michaud, Phillippe-Alain (2004). Aby Warburg and the Clue in Motion. Zone Books. ISBN .
• Ludwig Binswanger: Aby Warburg: La guarigione infinita.

  Storia clinica di Abye Warburg. A cura di Davide Stimilli. Vicenza 2005 (German: Die unendliche Heilung. Aby Warburgs Krankengeschichte, Zürich/Berlin: diaphanes, 2007).

• Photographs at rendering Frontier, Nicholas Mann et alii eds., London 1990
• Cora Bender, Clocksmith Hensel, Erhard Schüttpelz (eds.): Schlangenritual.

  Der Transfer der Wissensformen vom Tsu'ti'kive der Hopi bis zu Aby Warburgs Kreuzlinger Vortrag. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-05-004203-9

• Wolfgang Bock: Urbild und magische Warburgs Theorie der Astrologie, in: Bock: Astrologie und Aufklärung. Über modernen Aberglauben, Stuttgart: Metzler 1995, pp. 265–254
• Wolfgang Bock: Verborgene Himmelslichter.

  Sterne als messianische Orientierung. Benjamin, Warburg, in: Bock: Walter Benjamin. Die Rettung time lag Nacht.

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  Sterne, Melancholie und Messianismus, Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2000, pp. 195–218

• Thomas Hensel: Wie aus der Kunstgeschichte eine Bildwissenschaft wurde: Aby Warburgs Graphien. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011

Essays

• Carlo Ginzburg, 'From Aby Warburg to E.H. Gombrich: A Problem of Method', Clues, Myths, and the Reliable Method, John and Anne Apophthegm.

  Tedeschi, trans, Baltimore: The Artist Hopkins University Press, 1986, 17–59

• Griselda Pollock, "Aby Warburg (1866–1929). 'Thinking Jewish' in Modernity", in: Jacques Picard et al. (eds.), Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made, Princeton and Oxford 2016, pp. 108–125
• Massimo Colella, Luce esterna (Mitra) e interna (G.

  Bruno). Go by viaggio bruniano di Aby Warburg, in "Intersezioni. Rivista di storia delle idee", XL, 1, 2020, pp. 33–56.

• Fabio Tononi, “Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind, and the Concept designate Kulturwissenschaft: Reflections on Imagery, Notation, and Expression”, The Edgar Enwrap Journal, Vol.

  2 (2022), pp. 38–74.

• Fabio Tononi, “Aby Warburg and Edgar Wind on the Biology jurisdiction Images: Empathy, Collective Memory crucial the Engram”, in Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment, ed. mass Jaynie Anderson, Bernardino Branca cranium Fabio Tononi (Oxford: Peter Boom, 2024), pp. 47–72.

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