Metadata : Warburg, Aby (1866-1929) : Family correspondence
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Postal address:
- The Warburg Institute, University of LondonSchool of Advanced Study, Woburn Square London Greater London United Kingdom WC1H 0AB
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7862 8935/6
- Web address:
- https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study
- Postal address:
- The Warburg Institute, University of LondonSchool of Advanced Study, Woburn Square London Greater London United Kingdom WC1H 0AB
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7862 8935/6
- Web address:
- https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
- Reference number:
- FC
- Title:
- Warburg, Aby (1866-1929) : Family correspondence
- Title (official language):
- Warburg, Aby (1866-1929) : Family correspondence
- Creator/accumulator:
- Warburg, Aby Moritz, 1866-1929, art and cultural historian
- Date(s):
- 1873/1934
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 33 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Family correspondence of Aby Moritz Warburg, 1873-1934.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Aby Moritz Warburg was born in Hamburg, 1866 to a wealthy banking family; instead of entering the family business, he devoted himself to the academic study of art, European civilization and the classical tradition; studied in Bonn, Munich, and in Strasbourg, focusing on archeology and art history; worked in Florence producing studies on single works of art and their wealthy patrons; spent time on the Hopi Indians conducting an ethnological study, 1896; founded the Kultur-wissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (KBW), to serve both as a private collection and as a resource for public education, 1921; visited the United States to document the Native Americans and their mystic traditions using photographs and text; hospitalized, 1921-1924; worked at the KBW, 1924-1929; died 1929.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Warburg, Aby Moritz
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- Archive material is accessible for the purpose of private study and personal research and within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Archive reading room. Access is with permission from the Institute Director and by prior appointment only. Potential users are advised to browse the Institute website and contact the Archivist, Dr des Claudia Wedepohl, before planning a visit. Access to individual items in the Warburg Institute Archives may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.
- Finding aids:
- A database containing c7,200 abstracts of family letters (covering dates up to and including 1934) is available for consultation in the Institute Archive; contact Archive staff for details.Online catalogue see https://wi-calm.sas.ac.uk/CalmView/
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
- Warburg Institute
- Reference number:
- FC
- Title:
- Warburg, Aby (1866-1929) : Family correspondence
- Title (official language):
- Warburg, Aby (1866-1929) : Family correspondence
- Creator/accumulator:
- Warburg, Aby Moritz, 1866-1929, art and cultural historian
- Date(s):
- 1873/1934
- Language:
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 33 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Family correspondence of Aby Moritz Warburg, 1873-1934.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Aby Moritz Warburg was born in Hamburg, 1866 to a wealthy banking family; instead of entering the family business, he devoted himself to the academic study of art, European civilization and the classical tradition; studied in Bonn, Munich, and in Strasbourg, focusing on archeology and art history; worked in Florence producing studies on single works of art and their wealthy patrons; spent time on the Hopi Indians conducting an ethnological study, 1896; founded the Kultur-wissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (KBW), to serve both as a private collection and as a resource for public education, 1921; visited the United States to document the Native Americans and their mystic traditions using photographs and text; hospitalized, 1921-1924; worked at the KBW, 1924-1929; died 1929.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Warburg, Aby Moritz
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Personal records
- Access, restrictions:
- Archive material is accessible for the purpose of private study and personal research and within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Archive reading room. Access is with permission from the Institute Director and by prior appointment only. Potential users are advised to browse the Institute website and contact the Archivist, Dr des Claudia Wedepohl, before planning a visit. Access to individual items in the Warburg Institute Archives may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.
- Finding aids:
- A database containing c7,200 abstracts of family letters (covering dates up to and including 1934) is available for consultation in the Institute Archive; contact Archive staff for details.Online catalogue see https://wi-calm.sas.ac.uk/CalmView/
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
- Warburg Institute
