Aby Warburg

Abraham Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929), was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded a private Library for Cultural Studies, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, later Warburg Institute. At the heart of his research was the legacy of the Classical World, and the transmission of classical representation, in the most varied areas of western culture through to the Renaissance.

Literature

• Ernst H. Gombrich, Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography, London: Warburg Institute, 1970, 376 pp.
  • Aby Warburg. Eine intellektuelle Biographie, Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1981, 478 pp; Hamburg: Philo & Philo Fine Arts, 2006. (in German)
• Richard Woodfield (ed.), Art History as Cultural History: Warburg's Projects, Routledge, 2001, 304 pp.
• György E. Szônyi, "Warburg's Intuitions in Light of Postmodern Challenges", Umění 49 (2001), pp 1-9.
• Sabine Flach, Inge Münz-Koenen, Marianne Streisand (eds.), Der Bilderatlas im Wechsel der Künste und Medien, Munich: Fink, 2005. (German)
• Bibliography

Links

• Warburg at Wikipedia