Warburg Institute
London cultural research and collection centre
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Home to a unique collection smuggled out of Nazi Germany, the institute will show temporary exhibitions alongside Edmund de Waal’s library of exile
Phillips will sell 16 works in aid of the London University institution tomorrow
Research centre based on the library of German art historian Aby Warburg plans to open new public spaces in 2022
But University of London also claims victory—and costs could be up to £1m
Tension with the University of London has been growing
Alongside Warburg, there was no room for Fritz Saxl to be anything other than his most faithful assistant
The art historian’s collected writings include an illuminating essay drawn from his dazzling, lengthy lectures
The famous library founded by Aby Warburg for a special kind of research may lose its essential nature
Stancioff spent her life charting the use of the same visual symbols by vastly distant cultures
Palazzo Schifanoia displays archive material from the Warburg Institute to commemorate her work
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In 1933 Nazism, drove a band of original and profound scholars to settle in Britain. Out of these elements grew the world famous Institute, whose approach to the past has incomparably enriched the understanding of art. Will the 1990s see this living intellectual force stifled by British government meanness and philistinism?