The Warburg Institute is a research institution associated with the University of London in central London, England. A member of the School of Advanced Study, its focus is the study of the influence of classical antiquity on all aspects of Europeancivilization. Based originally in Hamburg, Germany, in 1933 the collection was moved to London, where it became incorporated into the University of London in 1944. In 2015, the Institute welcomed its new Director, Professor David Freedberg, and settled a long-running legal dispute with the university over its financial status.
History
Hamburg
The Institute was formed in Hamburg, Germany, from the library of Aby Warburg (1866–1929), a student of Renaissance art and culture, and a scion of the wealthy Jewish Warburg family.
As an art historian, Warburg had become dissatisfied with an aestheticising approach to art history and was interested in a more philosophical and interdisciplinary approach. While studying the culture of Renaissance Florence, he grew interested in the influence of antiquity on modern culture, and the study of this second life of the Classical World became his life work. In 1900 he decided to establish the Warburg-Bibliothek für Kulturwissenschaft, which became an enormous private library, built around this question and funded privately—Warburg "famously forfeited his right to a share of his fortune on condition that his younger brother Max would buy him any books he required".
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Now another crisis is enveloping the storied institution and has forced its longtime chairman, Christian Olearius, as well as co-owner Max Warburg - a direct descendant of the founding family - from the supervisory board.
It used to be that the tarot reader was seen as an outsider figure. Someone to be distrusted at best, avoided at worst ...Tarot ... The artwork behind the tarot will make up part of a new exhibition coming to London's Warburg Institute in January, ‘Tarot ... .
On a recent sunny Friday, I took a tour of the newly revamped Warburg Institute and library. When there was talk ten years ago of assimilating the institute into the University of London — it sits on ...
“We are essentially devoted to the study of what you would now call memes” – OliverWainwright celebrates a makeover for “the world’s weirdest library”, the Warburg Institute, in this intriguing ...
Long off-limits to passersby, the Warburg Institute has now been reborn, after a £14.5m transformation, with a mission to be more public than ever ... The institute was ... Matt Crossick/The Warburg Institute.
Tarot is having something of a rebirth. In early 2025, it will be the subject of an exhibition at the Warburg Institute in London. Tarot ... The original paintings for this are held at the Warburg Institute and some will be featured in the new exhibition ... .
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Latin saved my life. Sort of ... I found a new passion. journalism ... Then, in 2019, over 20 years later, a concatenation of circumstances resulted in me starting a part-time master’s degree in Renaissance intellectual history at London’s Warburg Institute ... .
“The city boasts some of the best Michelin-starred restaurants, diverse neighborhoods, world-class museums, theaters and cultural institutions,” said Coldwell Banker Warburg RegionalVice President...
The divisions IV–V of this authoritative book have been recently translated into English from Arabic and published by the Warburg Institute under the title "The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham, Books IV–V.
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