Research Guides: Sources for the History of the Warburg Institute and Library: History of the Warburg Library: Bibliography

Further reading for the History of the Warburg Library

Die kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg in Hamburg. by Fritz Saxl
Classmark: RR 288/NBM 80
Offprint from: Ludolph Brauer [a.o.:] Forschungsinstitute, ihre Geschichte, Organisation und Ziele. Bd. 2. 1930.
From the arsenal to the laboratory by Aby Warburg
Classmark: NBM 80
Warburg's 'Aims of the KBW'.

Additional author/translators: Christopher Johnson, Claudia Wedepohl.
Bericht über die Tätigkeit der Bibliothek Warburg in den Jahren 1930 und 1931.
Classmark: NBM 80

Die Emigration der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Warburg und die Anfänge des Universitätsfaches Kunstgeschichte in Grossbritannien by Dieter Wuttke
Classmark: NBM 80
A tale of one institute and two cities : the Warburg Institute. by Dorothea McEwan
Classmark: NBM 80
Persönliche Erinnerungen an die ersten Jahre des Warburg-Institutes in London by Hugo Buchthal
Classmark: NBM 80

Die Rettung des Warburg-Instituts by Eric M. Warburg
Classmark: NBM 80
Offprint from: Poiesis. 4. 1987. Bound with Meyer-Abich
Annual Report, 1952/53, of the Warburg Institute, University of London
Includes Eric M. Warburg's account of the Transfer of the Warburg Institute to England in 1933.

Mnemosyne: Meanderings through Aby Warburg's Atlas
Ten panels from the Mnemosyne Atlas

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. Warburg thought this visual, metaphoric encyclopedia, with its constellations of symbolic images, would animate the viewer’s memory, imagination, and understanding of what he called “the afterlife of antiquity.”
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Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. The Original. Exhibition, conference, publication. Sep 4–Nov 1, 2020 at HKW, Berlin

From the arsenal to the laboratory by Aby Warburg
Classmark: NBM 80
Warburg's 'Aims of the KBW'.

Additional author/translators: Christopher Johnson, Claudia Wedepohl.
On the Warburg Humanities Library by Dorothée Baurle-Willert
Classmark: NBM 80
In English and German
The Warburg Institute Classification Scheme by Edgar Wind
Classmark: NBM 80
Offprint from: The Library Association Record. 4th ser. Vol. 2. 1935.
The Warburg Institute. by Gertrud Bing
Classmark: NBM 80
Publication Date: 1934