Search results
Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (Warburg Library for Cultural Studies), a private library, which was later moved to the Warburg Institute, London.
“Amburghese di cuore, ebreo di sangue, d’anima Fiorentino” (“By heart a native of Hamburg, by blood a Hebrew, in spirit a Florentine”) – with this motto Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929) neatly distilled the tripartite forces that animated his life and thought.
Feb 29, 2024 · The pioneer German historian of art had shed the God of his ancestors in youth. This maverick scholar from a banking dynasty identified himself as “by blood a Hebrew, by heart a native of ...
Mar 16, 2021 · Your first impression on encountering this reconstruction of German art-historian Aby Warburg’s most celebrated work is that it looks like a primitive, pinboard version of a Google image search. Or the evidence board in some 1970s crime movie.
Jun 28, 2016 · The German Jewish art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) is regarded as a practitioner of visual studies avant la lettre. Born in Hamburg into a well-established family of bankers, he resigned from his birthright to the business and studied art history, archaeology, history, philosophy, and, briefly, psychology.
May 14, 2020 · With nearly 1,000 images, Aby Warburg’s radical form of visual study is also an artwork itself. Now you can see it online.
- link.springer.com
- › The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies
Oct 2, 2021 · This article is generally understood as one of the founding documents of the fields of Bildwissenschaft or visual studies as championed by prominent figures like Horst Bredekamp (Bredekamp 2003) and W. J. T. Mitchell (cf. Hensel 2011, 12f.).
About the Mnemosyne Atlas. Begun in 1924 and left unfinished at the time of his death in 1929, the Mnemosyne Atlas is Aby Warburg’s attempt to map the “afterlife of antiquity,” or how images of great symbolic, intellectual, and emotional power emerge in Western antiquity and then reappear and are reanimated in the art and cosmology of ...
The Warburg Institute Archive holds documents relating to the life of Aby Warburg, the history of the Institute in its various sites in Hamburg and London, and to scholars associated with the Institute.
The last project of the German Jewish “cultural scientist” Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929), the Mnemosyne Atlas is an unfinished attempt to map the pathways that give art history and cosmography their pathos-laden meanings.
