Warburg House

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Warburg House with the initials KBW from the former Warburg Library for Cultural Studies in the masonry, 2015
Blackboard on the building reminiscent of the former Warburg Cultural Studies Library , 2015
Warburg-Haus, Heilwigstrasse 116, and the former home of Aby Warburg, Heilwigstrasse 114, 2015

The Warburg-Haus at Heilwigstrasse 116 in Hamburg-Eppendorf is an interdisciplinary forum for art and cultural studies. It is an institution of the University of Hamburg and the Aby Warburg Foundation and has nothing in common with the Warburg House in New York .

history

In 1909 , Aby Warburg , who came from the Jewish Warburg banking family , moved with his wife Mary Warburg and their children into the house at Heilwigstrasse 114 and also bought the neighboring property at Heilwigstrasse 116 with foresight . The rooms in house 114 also served Aby Warburg as a constantly growing, cultural and scientific property Library, improvised lecture halls and offices. In order to give the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg as an established institution a spatially appropriate presence, he decided to build a new building on property no. 116. After the design by the architect Felix Ascher was displeased in 1923 , Fritz Schumacher , Warburg's friend and chief building director, steered the first ideas for the shape of the building and recommended Gerhard Langmaack as the architect, who developed the shape of the building in close consultation and discussion with Warburg. Construction began in 1925 and Ernst Cassirer's inauguration speech , after construction was completed, took place on May 1, 1926.

In December 1933, which was culture Bibliothek Warburg in London shipped to them accessing the coming to power, the National Socialists to withdraw. Archival material from 1,500 books, brochures and magazines as well as a large number of newspaper clippings remained in Hamburg, which are considered lost. On November 28, 1944, the library was attached to the University of London . This resulted in the Warburg Institute .

The house itself was the seat of various companies until 1993, such as the Neue Deutsche Wochenschau Gesellschaft mbh , which produced the Neue Deutsche Wochenschau and the first Tagesschau here , or a pharmaceutical company and an advertising company. In 1983 the building was listed as a historical monument. In 1993 the Hanseatic City of Hamburg acquired the building and had it renovated for two years in accordance with a listed building. The house and house no. 114 are listed in the list of cultural monuments in Hamburg-Eppendorf .

present

In 1995 the mayor Henning Voscherau handed over the house to the Aby Warburg Foundation. Since it opened in May 1995, the house has been known as the Warburg House and is used as an interdisciplinary forum for art and cultural studies. It is an institution of the University of Hamburg and the Aby Warburg Foundation and is funded by the Authority for Science and Research . It is dedicated to cutting-edge research in the humanities and cultural history and at the same time has an impact on the public through the socio-political relevance of its topics and methods. It is committed to its history and the tradition of research personalities such as Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Cassirer.

The award ceremony for the Aby Warburg Foundation Science Prize , which should not be confused with the Aby Warburg Prize , is held regularly in the library of the Warburg House. The library is part of the joint library network (GBV).

The house houses various archives:

  • The Warburg Archive, which is dedicated to Aby Warburg's research personality, as well as the cultural studies library he founded and the scientists working in its vicinity. It also provides information about the prehistory and history of the Hamburg Art History Seminar, the history of the subject of art history and the revival of the historical library building as a Warburg House since the 1990s.
  • The Heckscher archive, which stores and indexes the estate of the art historian and humanist William Heckscher .
  • The Hamburger Kunst archive includes the Bruhns archive, the Kottnik archive and the correspondence Rolf Nesch - Familie des Arts .
  • The Bruhns Archive, also known as the Archive for Persecuted Art in Hamburg (AVK), which was compiled by the art historian Maike Bruhns , focuses on Hamburg art of the 20th and 21st centuries, especially the persecution of artists during the Nazi era. It contains extensive material on approx. 450 artists and institutions of the Hamburg art scene, including on ostracized and persecuted persons of the missing generation , such as artists of the Hamburg Secession , but also on regime-compliant artists.
  • The Kottnik archive contains material collected by Carl Walter Kottnik on around 100 ASSO artists .
  • The correspondence Rolf Nesch - Familie des Arts comprises 325 documents from the exchange of ideas between the collector family and the artist Rolf Nesch between 1922 and 1973.

literature

Web links

Commons : Warburg House  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Lange: Architekturführer Hamburg , Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart 1995, p. 139 (digitized version)
  2. ↑ Hans-Michael Schäfer and Matthias Bruhn: The Warburg House in Hamburg , 1999 (PDF file)
  3. ^ Main source , website of the Warburg House

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 15.6 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 45.8"  E