Aby Warburg: Volume of Works (Edition)

Aby Warburg, passionate image researcher and founder of iconology as an independent discipline, was quite the »grandseigneurale scholar«, according to his contemporary Walter Benjamin. Warburg transcended disciplinary boundaries and developed a special interest in figures of transition, inversion, and conversion, which he used as seismographs of their own eras. Today there is hardly any field of the humanities that has not been significantly influenced by him and hardly a cultural studies debate that does not speak to the legacy of ideas left behind by his writings.

Created by the ZfL, a volume of complete works collects Warburg’s most important texts in a carefully annotated edition, in which all foreign-language quotations have been translated for the first time. In addition to a selection of previously published work, which was revised in part based on the posthumous manuscripts, this edition also contains previously unpublished manuscripts from the estate.

Program funding through the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) 2008–2009
Head researcher(s): Martin Treml, Sigrid Weigel
Associate Researcher(s): Perdita Ladwig

 

See also:
ZfL project Aby Warburg and Cultures of Religion

Publications

Perdita Ladwig, Martin Treml, Sigrid Weigel (ed./eds.)
With the collaboration of Susanne Hetzer, Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink and Christina Oberstebrink

Aby Warburg
Werke in einem Band

suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft vol. 2242
Suhrkamp, Berlin 2018, 989 pages
ISBN 978-3-518-29842-8
Martin Treml, Sabine Flach, Pablo Schneider (ed./eds.)

Warburgs Denkraum
Formen, Motive, Materialien

Trajekte-Buchreihe
Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München 2014, 286 pages
ISBN 978-3-7705-5077-7
Perdita Ladwig, Martin Treml, Sigrid Weigel (ed./eds.)
With the collaboration of Susanne Hetzer, Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink and Christina Oberstebrink

Aby Warburg
Werke in einem Band

Suhrkamp, Berlin 2010, 988 pages
ISBN 978-3-518-58531-3

Events

Vortrag
05 Nov 2015 · 6.00 pm

Martin Treml: Cómo mapear imágenes. Atlas ilustrado de Aby Warburg, investigación cultural y práctica artística

Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá, Facultad de Artes, Edificio SINDU (edificio 314), Auditorio Ángela Inés Guzmán (Kolumbien)

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Internationaler Workshop
25 Nov 2011 – 26 Nov 2011 · 1.00 am

Neue Perspektiven der Warburg-Forschung

ZfL, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, 3. Et., Trajekte-Tagungsraum 308

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Kolloquium
17 Jan 2008 – 19 Jan 2008 · 1.00 am

Der Denkraum der Besonnenheit – Formen, Motive, Materialien

ZfL, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, 3. Et., Trajekte-Tagungsraum 308

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Media Response

01 May 2011
Gedanken sind zollfrei

Review by Mirja Rosenau, in: art. Das Kunstmagazin 5 (2011)

10 Mar 2011
Aby Warburg. Werke in einem Band

Review by Bernhard Schulz, in: H-Soz-Kult, 10 Mar 2011

07 Feb 2011
In Bildern versteckte Symbole waren seine Leidenschaft

Article by Bernhard Schulz, in: zeit.de, 7 Feb 2011

06 Feb 2011
Gespenstergeschichte für Erwachsene

Article by Bernhard Schulz, in: Tagesspiegel, 6 Feb 2011

16 Dec 2010
Denkarbeit am Kunstwerk

Review by Martin Warnke, in: Die Zeit, 16 Dez 2010

12 Dec 2010
Von Botticelli zu den Hopi-Indianern

Review by Manfred Pabst, in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag, 12 Dez 2010

27 Nov 2010
Mnemen sind nur Schall und Rauch

Aby Warburg bedeutet für verschiedene kunsthistorische Schulen etwas ganz Unterschiedliches. Eine Edition seiner Texte will jetzt neue Blicke ermöglichen. Rezension von Niklas Maak, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung vom 27.11.2010

06 Nov 2010
Glücksfall Warburg

Review by Thomas Mayer, in: Die Welt, 6 Nov 2010

13 Sep 2010
Das Wort zum Bild

Review by Michael Diers, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 13 Sep 2010

25 Aug 2010
Aby Warburg. Werke in einem Band

Review by Sibylle Mulot, in: Spiegel online, 25 Aug 2010