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Warburg and the Warburg Library 1928-1933, 1924-1994

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Papers, mostly collected retrospectively, relating to Aby Warburg and his work, the Bibliothek Warburg in Hamburg, and the Warburg family before 1933, including:

  1. Folder 1: 'Hamburg, Bibliothek Warburg 1927-1933': Typescript reminiscences by Edgar Wind of his relationship with Aby Warburg, Warburg’s life, illness and death, and of the Warburg Library in Hamburg in 1928-1933, c. 1970, with related correspondence between Margaret Wind and Frede and Adolf Prag, c. 1993, and miscellaneous notes. [I, 3, i; WIND 4]
  2. Folder 2: ‘Hamburg 1927-1933 Warburg family’: Circular letter from the bankers M.M. Warburg-Brinckmann, Wirtz & Co., 1970, and various cuttings in English, German and Italian from newspapers and magazines about members of the Warburg family, c. 1970-1993; notes by Margaret Wind on reminiscences by Edgar Wind about the Warburg family, c. 1969; correspondence between Edgar Wind and G.J. Grange relating to a book about the Warburg family, 1969. Also includes a letter to Edgar Wind about Warburg's son [Max Adolph], 1940; and a portrait photograph of Aby Warburg, n.d. [I, 3, ii; WIND 4]
  3. Folder 3: ‘Hamburg, Warburg and colleagues': Articles in English, German and French from journals, books and magazines about Warburg, his colleagues and the Warburg Library, 1924-1994. [I, 3, iii; WIND 4]
  4. Folder 4: ‘Warburg’s Aphorisms’: Notes by Margaret Wind on Warburg’s aphorisms as recalled by Wind, c. 1970, and a list of publications by, and relating to, Warburg, c. 1985. [I, 3, iv; WIND 4]
  5. Folder 5: ‘Warburg’s lecture on “Serpent Ritual”’: Photocopies of published versions (abridged English translation 'A Lecture on Serpent Ritual', published in Journal of the Warburg Institute II (1939); German version published as 'Schlangenritual. Ein Reisebericht', 1988, with a review by Bernhard Buschendorf; Italian translation, 1984); notes by Margaret Wind on a conversation with Edgar Wind about Warburg’s wish to revisit the Pueblo Indians, n.d. [I, 3, v; WIND 4]
  6. Folder 6: ‘Warburg’: Copies of photographs showing Warburg and a Pueblo native American (from an original of 1895-1896); notes and photocopied extracts relating to Samuel Butler, c. 1940s and c. 1980s; booklet, photocopies and photographs relating to indigenous Californian and New Mexican art (collected by Wind in 1940); photocopies and photographs relating to Santa Barbara, the Carmel Mission and other places in California visited by Edgar Wind, c. 1940; letter to Edgar Wind from Henry LaFarge relating to an article ‘John LaFarge and the South Sea Idyll’, 1943, photographs of paintings by John LaFarge; photographs of a Chinese objet d’art entitled ‘Cranes and Serpents’. [I, 3, vi, WIND 4]

Dates

  • Creation: 1924-1994

Extent

1 box (6 folders)

Language of Materials

  • German
  • Italian
  • French

Shelfmark

MS. Wind 3

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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