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Shakespeare did) to shape the future. We From the Director have revisited our founder’s pioneering vision for the interdisciplinary study of memory and the movement of images About The Warburg Institute The Warburg About through time and space. Interest in Aby Warburg seems to be greater than ever: the pages of this review will give you a glimpse of a week-long conference on Warburg’s work at the National Library of Argentina, an exhibition on the Warburg’s history of exhibition-making in Munich, and our inaugural Summer School on Warburg’s unfinished magnum opus, the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. Our work on Warburg’s legacy has not only involved Professor Bill Sherman collaboration with colleagues around the Welcome to The Warburg Institute’s first world but has engaged Warburg’s own Annual Review. We have been producing descendants: we were thrilled to launch an Annual Report — with a detailed the Warburg Family Circle this year, and account of all activities — since the have been happy to welcome more than Institute moved to London in 1933. But fifty people into the group that represents this publication will provide a concise — quite literally — the DNA of The 'The refurbishment Warburg Institute. introduction to the Warburg and a lively and extension summary of each year’s highlights. The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres 380,000 rare and modern volumes still organised using I have been struck from the start of my of the Warburg’s for studying the interaction of ideas, images, and society. Warburg’s original structure, as well as a Photographic This year (my second as Director) saw time as Director by the strength of the It was founded in Hamburg by the pioneering historian Collection with more than 400,000 images and one of the launch of the Warburg Renaissance, Warburg community: few institutions much-loved but Aby Warburg (1866–1929), the scholarly scion of one the most complete archives of any research centre in the an ambitious capital project for the can boast such a devoted group of staff, long-neglected of Europe’s great banking families, and it was exiled to humanities. architectural and intellectual renovation of alumni, fellows and readers. I look forward to expanding that community in the building…offers a England in 1933, becoming the only institution saved the Institute. Driven by the refurbishment Learn more about The Warburg Institute: warburg.sas.ac.uk coming years and to working with all of from Nazi Germany to survive intact in Britain today. The and extension of the Warburg’s much- once-in-a-lifetime you on the future of cultural memory. Institute became part of the University of London in 1944 Follow us on Twitter (@warburg_news) and Facebook loved but long-neglected building, opportunity the project offers a once-in-a-lifetime and has been housed since 1958 in a building designed (@TheWarburgInstitute) Professor Bill Sherman opportunity to turn one of Bloomsbury’s to turn one of by Charles Holden, opening onto three of Bloomsbury’s hidden gems into a catalyst for academic Director Bloomsbury’s historic squares. and artistic partnerships and a beacon hidden gems Warburg set out to find the roots of the Renaissance in for international collaboration. We are ancient culture and ended up changing the way we see working with Stirling Prize-winning into a catalyst the world around us. He created a research institute that architects Haworth Tompkins on exciting for academic has served—during a turbulent century—as a safe haven designs and raising the remaining money needed to deliver our vision. and artistic and creative crucible for some of the world’s greatest partnerships scholars, curators, and artists. We chose the name ‘Warburg Renaissance’ and a beacon for Today, the Institute provides postgraduate courses, not only because the Institute has always been a leading centre for the study of hosts research projects and offers a range of public international the Renaissance period but because the programmes. It houses an open-stack library of more than collaboration.' term asks us to look in two directions —

2 The Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 3 From the Chair of the Warburg Charitable Trust Collections Collections UK, Germany and United States. The lead donation of £1m by Hamburg’s Hermann Library The Warburg Digital Library, which was launched in late Reemtsma Stiftung was the largest 2017, has already become a core open access resource donation ever received by the University for researchers. This growing collection currently hosts of London’s development team, and other around five hundred volumes of digitised material from gifts have taken the total raised to £2.6m Aby Warburg’s personal library, including his collection (toward our £5m target) at the time of of Italian Baroque opera libretti; his books from the going to print. library’s famous Magic and Science section were digitised in 2019. Even as a developing resource with As a Trust, we have placed significant focus an as-yet relatively narrow scope and small size, the

From the Chair of the Warburg Charitable Trust Charitable Warburg of the From the Chair on raising the profile of the Institute in the UK and abroad and we were delighted Digital Library has attracted around 10,000 users who to support a series of fascinating events accessed it 1.5 million times in the past year. This is a in 2019. On 27th March, artist and author very gratifying take-up for a specialist collection of this Edmund de Waal, a great supporter of kind. It demonstrates the value of investing in resources Christopher Rossbach the Institute, gave a talk on Libraries and which both raise the Institute’s profile and allow us to Since it was founded in 1998, the Warburg Exile at the Warburg, giving us a sneak open up our fascinating collections to a host of new Charitable Trust has provided independent preview of his major exhibition at the virtual users. support for the activities of the Institute. In Venice Biennale and helping us to launch recent years, it has created opportunities the Warburg Family Circle. This event was Library and encapsulate its aim: to study the tenacity of for students and scholars, bolstered library followed in early May by an exclusive tour symbols and images in European art and architecture holdings and helped with profile- and of de Waal’s exhibition in Venice for over (Image, 1st floor); the persistence of motifs and forms in fund-raising for capital projects. 100 supporters. Later that month, we were hosted by the American Friends of The Western languages and literatures (Word, 2nd floor); the In 2019, we took great strides to increase Warburg Institute in New York for a talk by gradual transition, in Western thought, from magical beliefs our activity, visibility and support at a scholar and author Stephen Greenblatt to religion, science and philosophy (Orientation, 3rd & crucial time in the Institute’s history. We to launch the Warburg Renaissance to 4th floor) and the survival and transformation of ancient were fortunate to be able to recruit three current and prospective supporters in the The Warburg Library’s unique scheme of organisation patterns in social customs and political institutions (Action, excellent new Trustees, replacing two U.S.. 4th floor). long-serving Trustees for whose service At the heart of the Institute, the Library holds a collection we are deeply grateful. Our Trustees have Looking ahead to 2020—with its new of international importance in the humanities and is Alongside our physical collections in Woburn Square, a variety of skills and backgrounds and opportunities and challenges—our hope partially funded by Research England for its national role in we have also developed a growing collection of online share a unifying passion for The Warburg is to build on this momentum toward a supporting and promoting academic research. Its 380,000 resources, including specialist databases, e-book collections Institute and its importance as a place for Warburg Renaissance. We are particularly volumes, available on open shelves, make it the largest and e-journals. Our LibGuides pages offer curated research taking hold of cultural memory and giving excited by the historic exhibitions of 'Our Trustees… guides on specific topics along with information about the it agency. Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne collection in the world focused on Renaissance studies share a unifying library and its unique classification system. We hope that and its related works in Berlin as well and the history of the classical tradition. It includes a The intellectual and architectural as the publication of a new facsimile in passion for large number of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century the new Warburg Commons repository, which went live ambitions of the Warburg Renaissance monumental size. Such activities will help continental books and periodicals (especially German and recently, will also become a valuable virtual collection that project are key to this. Renovating The Warburg us to add new Trustees with an interest Italian) unavailable elsewhere in the UK, as well as several will complement our print holdings. the institute and creating new space Institute and its in the Warburg and its mission and to thousand pre-1800 items. Around 3,000 new books are in its courtyard represents a historic Our readers – both online and in Woburn Square – play a raise the remaining funds for the Warburg importance as a added to the collection every year, with particular focus opportunity to write the next chapter of vital role in the Warburg community. We have increased our Renaissance project. We are grateful to placed on acquiring specialist and foreign language the Warburg. The Trustees have played place for taking reader services, extending our opening hours and offering everyone who has supported the Institute, material. We receive many books as gifts from alumni, an active role in fundraising efforts for hold of cultural a manned information desk fifty-eight hours a week. We keeping its legacy secure for the future. former fellows, readers and friends. the project and we are extremely grateful memory and also engage with readers through our dedicated Warburg to the donors—who now include some Christopher Rossbach Library Twitter and Facebook accounts, responding to of the major cultural foundations in the giving it agency.' The categories of Image, Word, Orientation and Action Chair, Warburg Charitable Trust constitute the main divisions of The Warburg Institute queries and highlighting new acquisitions and interesting

4 The Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 5 Alternate layouts items from our collections. Even more importantly, the original photos that Warburg Photographic Collection selected for his Bilderatlas were retrieved from the collection The library is free to use and we welcome all researchers by Warburg PhD student Lorenza Gay. A 2020 exhibition who are interested in the fields we cover. PhD students,

Collections in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin will present a Collections academics, and professional museum, library and gallery complete reconstruction of the Bilderatlas displaying these staff need only present their student or staff ID to register original photos. The photos themselves have been replaced for a library card. Undergraduates, MA students and with copies in the Photographic Collection and will, upon independent researchers are requested to provide a letter their return from the Berlin show, be conserved in the of recommendation along with photographic ID. You Institute Archive. can check our admission guidelines at https://warburg. libguides.com/library/access. We very much hope to While the Photographic Collection has a long and welcome you to the collections soon. distinguished history, it is also aiming at an exciting future. From 2010 onwards, efforts have been made to digitise the collection and present its contents in a new on-line resource, The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database. The database is not simply an electronic carbon copy of the existing collection, but a new resource in its own right: it offers an iconographic taxonomy derived from the Wittkower classification system; it contains material from the Photographic Collection but also newly acquired images; and it functions as an iconographic hub with links to images on external websites.

The academic year 2018-2019 saw the contents of the Marco Zoppo, Death of Orpheus (or: Death of Pentheus), ca database reach the significant mark of 100,000 images. 1470, pen drawing on vellum, 34.3 x 26.4 cm, London, British The most important addition of the year was a group of ca Museum 8,000 images illustrating the ancient and medieval stories about the Trojan War. The images were entered into the The Photographic Collection uses a unique subject database by Lorenza Gay, in a project funded by the Kress French Illuminator, The Trojan Horse, from Raoul Lefèvre, classification system, which began to be developed by the Foundation. Le recoeil des histoires de Troyes, 1495, Paris, Bibliothèque eminent art historian Rudolph Wittkower during the 1930s. nationale de France, fr. 22552, fol. 277v Outside of this classification system, the department also The database section on the Trojan War includes a newly The Warburg Institute Photographic Collection has its houses special collections it received as a gift or bequest. developed detailed taxonomy, significantly refined origins among the photos purchased or commissioned The largest of these is the Menil Archive of the Image of from Wittkower’s classification of the same subject in by the founder of the Institute, Aby Warburg. From these the Black in Western Art, a collection of ca 35,000 photos the Photographic Collection. It gives researchers on the beginnings, the collection has grown to become one of the documenting the depiction of people of colour as seen internet an unprecedented overview of the representation world’s prime resources for studying the subject matter of through the eyes of western artists from ancient Egypt to of countless subjects related to the prolonged siege and art, or iconography. the twentieth century. eventual sack of the City of Troy, from the Judgement of Paris and the Rape of Helen to the Trojan Horse and the The Photographic Collection currently presents a sample The increasing interest in Aby Warburg of recent decades Death of Achilles. of over 400,000 photos of works of art organised according has drawn attention to the Photographic Collection as a to the subjects represented, from still life and portraits depository of photos once owned and used by Warburg. 'July' from the 'Calendrier magique', an art nouveau calendar This aspect of the collection came to the foreground for astrologers, alchemists and mystics published in Paris in to ancient Greek and Roman myths, allegories, and during the academic year 2018-2019, when the Institute 1895: available on the Warburg Digital Library biblical narratives. The historical focus of the collection is on western art history from classical Antiquity to the organised a summer school devoted to Warburg’s famous nineteenth century, but in recent years, the holdings have photographic project, the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. Using been expanding into areas such as Ancient Egypt and the Photographic Collection as their base of operations, Mesopotamia, the Islamic world, China, India, and Africa. students of the summer school were encouraged to explore forms of the thematic arrangement of images.

6 The Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 7 Archive Institute’s history. One of the highlights in 2018-19 was the Archivist’s role in the collaboration between The Events

Warburg Institute and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Events

Collections in Berlin to prepare an exhibition that will reconstruct Aby Warburg’s famous Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. Warburg’s an exhibition together, and the practical and intellectual unfinished magnum opus is nowadays regarded as a challenges presented by combining items under a pioneering masterpiece in comparative visual studies.

The Warburg Institute The Warburg conceptual banner. Participants in this inaugural year for While the genesis of the Bilderatlas – whose last version the series included Caroline Campbell (National Gallery) on consisted of 63 wooden panels onto which 971 objects Mantegna and Bellini; Silvia Davoli on the “lost treasures” were pinned – is well documented in Warburg’s papers, of Strawberry Hill; Melanie Holcomb (Met, New York) on and most the photographic reproductions displayed on the problems and opportunities of exhibiting material the panels were returned to his collection of photographs contemporaneously from a wide variety of cultures and (now integrated in the Institute’s Photographic Collection) times; and Luke Syson (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) after the 63-panel-series was recorded for future editorial on the challenges of directing a major multi-disciplinary work in 1929. Subsequently, for almost a century these museum. pictures served as part of this research tool (since the 1930s following a strict iconographical taxonomy); Summer 2019 saw the launch of another new series of only a collaborative search, concluded in spring 2019, lectures, Cosimo I de’ Medici and Granducal Florence, The Ladies Waldegrave by Joshua Reynolds (1980-81), brought most of them back to light from the folders of National Galleries of Scotland; part of the exhibition The running through to New Year 2020 with an ambitious the Photo Collection. After a three-months conservation Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill: Masterpieces from Horace programme to mark the 500th anniversary year of the process during the summer of 2019 Warburg’s original Walpole’s Collection, at Strawberry Hill House, 20 October birth of the first Grand Duke of Florence. Besides being reproductions were ready to be displayed once again 2018 to 24 February 2019, co-curated by Silvia Davoli. a formidable administrator, Cosimo was a powerful and together with a number of objects preserved in the Archive influential patron of art, literature and architecture, and the in their original constellations. After the Berlin exhibition all In 2018-2019 The Warburg Institute expanded both its lecture programme set out to examine his impact on the these objects will be held together with the photographic audience and the thematic range of its events programme 16th century Florentine state, and the development of both records of 1928 and 1929 in the Archive’s collection of with a combination of conferences, training workshops, live statecraft and humanist arts. The institute invited scholars papers relating to the Atlas, so future scholars will be able conversations and lectures, which saw a full lecture room from across a broad range of subject fields to discuss the to study them in this context. on most evenings of each term. Throughout the year, new Grand Duke’s legacy in a paired-lecture format. Our first four Panel 61-64 of Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne with series were launched and urgent contemporary concerns the photograph of Jacopo Sansovino's Neptune (Palazzo speakers, from the Medici Archive Project, the University of While these activities were unusual, the Archive staff was were addressed around ideas of authenticity, the practice Duale, Venice), seen in the first row of images on the panel, Liège, Casa Buonarroti, and Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, and now recovered from the section "Gods and Myths, also engaged in improving the catalogues of the Archive of conservation, and the public impact of collections. examined Cosimo’s activity as a book collector, his influence Neptune" in the Photographic Collection of the Institute. holdings. In 2018-19, for example, staff completed a Meanwhile, a close engagement was maintained with the on the relationship between artists and writers, the thorough revision of the catalogue of Warburg’s working Institute’s history and its founding scholarly focus on the development under Vasari of the Palazzo Ducale, the role of Situated on the fourth floor of the building, The Warburg papers. Proof of the increasing interest in these documents afterlife of antiquity and the transmission of knowledge, agents and cultural brokers at the ducal court, and Cosimo’s Institute Archive keeps and manages access to all is the Archive’s online catalogue of c. 40,000 letters image and thought through space and time. management of self-image, propaganda, espionage and the documents relating to the history of the Institute. The spanning the years from 1873 to 1933; 50,000 records flow of information. Archive collections include the working papers of the were consulted in nearly 1,500 sessions in 2018-19. With Curatorial Conversations, launched this year, invited institute’s founder, Aby Warburg, and the Institute’s generous support of the German Literature Archive at representatives from museums, galleries and other administrative records. The Archive also looks after the Marbach, Samuel Thompson, a PhD candidate in German institutions with a global reach to share knowledge, literary bequests of other scholars associated with the Literature from Kings College London, made huge headway experience and insight into research and curation practice. Institute, among them former Directors Fritz Saxl, Henri in compiling a completely new and detailed catalogue The series is aimed broadly at anyone keen to learn about Frankfort, Gertrud Bing and Sir Ernst H. Gombrich, and of the papers of Alphons Barb, an Austrian classicist who the work that goes on behind the scenes of public-facing former members of staff such as Dame Frances Yates and came to Britain as a refugee and joined the Institute in exhibitions and major collections, and has brought new Alphons A. Barb. 1949. public and cultural sector professional audiences to the Institute. Coinciding, where possible, with exhibitions under Research facilitation is the main task of the Archive’s Some of the treasures of the Archive were taken out of discussion, the series offers curators and other museum two staff members. They make documents available to their boxes more often than usual this year to illustrate the professionals the opportunity to share their thoughts on c. 80 visitors per year and provide specialist advice, but Institute’s intriguing architectural and intellectual history in the public reception of their work, the audiences they aim Detail from Agnolo Bronzino, Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici as they are also actively involved in the promotion of the many events to promote the Warburg Renaissance project. to reach, the collaborative connections that help to put Orpheus (1537-1539)

8 The Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 9 Alongside the Curatorial Conversations programme, The core philosophical and intellectual focus of The knowledge from and through the medieval Arabic world the Warburg gave house room across all formats - from Warburg Institute, and the life history of the Institute itself, - culminating in a workshop, Science and Craft (17 June) Events Events postgraduate seminar to conference - to important and of its founders, were drawn upon in many different on the relationship between the theoretical and practical contemporary questions with direct relevance to the contexts throughout the year, bringing key international sides of esoteric disciplines in medieval al-Andalus. In Frances A. Yates: institute’s research interests, and the practice and ethos of scholars to the institute – many returning to the Warburg between, a number of wide-ranging conferences on the Work and Legacy scholarship and curation. after undertaking fellowships and periods of study here central Warburgian theme of cultural memory relocated earlier in their careers. Carlo Severi (EHESS: École des hautes to the larger spaces of Senate House. Nachleben and the Elsewhere, the Warburg programme took on questions of études en sciences sociales) spoke on the relationship Cultural Memory of Ancient Egypt (7 December), hosted for reality vs. subterfuge, and the “real” vs. the “fake” in a climate Exploring the academic and between Any Warburg's image theory and philosophical Aegyptiaca, the Journal of the History of the Reception of intellectual legacy of one of of post-truth and fake news. Word and Image in Times Ancient Egypt, took the afterlife of antiquity as its starting the most original, influential of Crisis (20/21 February) examined, with a roundtable and controversial Warburg point; Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare (28/29 November) scholars of the twentieth discussion supported by a display from the Archive, Aby examined the emblematic position of Shakespeare in century. Warburg’s vision of the 16th century media wars as a model Benjamin’s thinking and writing; and Memory and Mortality for resisting “fake news”, by placing his research on Luther, in Renaissance England (17 May) made an interdisciplinary Dürer and the fight for freedom of thought in their time survey of the early modern English experience of death Sydney Anglo alongside his own struggles during the First World War and remembrance. Lina Bolzoni Peter Burke 30 & 31 May 2019 against propaganda and the political manipulation of mass Mary Carruthers The Warburg’s founding methodology and institutional Stephen Clucas Chancellor's Hall media. Wouter Hanegraaff Senate House history were the focus of two further exhibitions arranged Deborah Harkness University of London James Knowles London WC1E 7HU by the Archive and Bilderfahrzeuge Project, first on Dilwyn Knox Ewa Kociszewska warburg.sas.ac.uk/events Photographs and Exhibition Practice 1933-1945 (3 May), Margaret McGowan Elizabeth McGrath and later to accompany the inaugural Summer School, Sophie Page Margaret Shewring The Cantino Planisphere, by an unknown Portuguese Aby Warburg, the Picture Atlas and the Making of Visual Charlotte Skene Catling György Szönyi cartographer (1502), Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena, Culture (8-12 July). This year’s postgraduate conference, Brian Copenhaver Funded by the Warburg Institute Italy. Mnemonic Waves (15 November), was inspired by Aby Bill Sherman and the John Coffin Memorial Trust Warburg’s theories of the transmission of knowledge approaches to the study of social anthropology (7 June); in waves of influence from one era, place and mind to A landmark conference on the legacy of Frances A. Yates Rita Copeland (University of Pennsylvania) examined another. And on 1st May, the institute celebrated the the influence of Aristotle’s Rhetoric within the medieval publication of a collection of essays, arising from a 2015 Finally, towards the end of the year, as preparations for the European church (18 October); Carlo Ginzburg, returning conference, tracing the impact and influence of historian first Warburg Summer School were underway, a special to the University of London as Seng Tee Lee Visiting of philosophy Raymond Klibansky, and other key founding conference, Frances A. Yates: Work and Legacy (30/31 Professor, drew a comparison between the intellectual figures, on the intellectual development of The Warburg May), dedicated to the legendary Warburgian historian, biographies of Aby Warburg and the Italian anthropologist Institute following the migration of the original library was held in the Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House. Scholars and historian of philosophy, Ernesto de Martino, and from Hamburg to London in the 1930s – an area of current, from across the world, and at all stages of career, inspired offered a masterclass on “how to navigate an archive” (6 & expanding research and enquiry. by Yates’s work, joined former colleagues who had 12 December); and June 2019 saw Kate Lowe (Queen Mary known and worked with her, to reappraise her extensive University of London) deliver three E. H. Gombrich Lectures contribution to art history, Renaissance studies, and on ‘Global acquisitions from the Portuguese trading empire the history of science. It was the largest in a very busy in Renaissance Italy’ – with new insights into the seismic summer conference programme that also included Freud’s effects on European culture of the great influx of global Archaeology (6 June), Writing Bilingually in Early Modern goods, objects, food, animals and people via the worldwide Europe (14 June), and a study day for the British Museum, Portuguese trading empire. Rembrandt: Thinking on Paper (24 June), which itself was In October 2018 a conference on Abū Ma'shar al-Balkhī, the last in a sub-series throughout the year of postgraduate the 9th century Arab polymath whose writings on workshops on artists and their practice. astrology, physics, medicine and cosmology influenced Johann Carion, The Prediction and Explanation of the Western European thought and science (but who has yet Great Flooding (Prognosticatio und erklerung der grossen to be the subject of a dedicated study), was the first of a wesserung) (Leipzig, 1521). The Award Ceremony for the first prize for education given number of events this year examining the transmission of to the Warburg by the Director of the Museo Liceo Egipcio in León, Spain.

10 Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 11 Studying at The Warburg Features Studying at the Warburg the at Studying Studying at the Warburg the at Studying

Professor Roger Chartier receiving his honorary degree

Students at the Institute benefit from its membership of SAS, which, by bringing together its nine member Institutes, e calendar of interdisciplinary research training courses and events. The Institute contributes directly to this programme Life after the Warburg: Rita Yates of training. For the first time, the year-long Renaissance Latin course was opened up to non-SAS students. We also After completing her MA in Art History, Curatorship offered for the first time, a January one-week Latin refresher and Renaissance Culture last year, Rita Yates went course to follow on from the well-known two-week Intensive on to secure the Marlay Curatorial Internship at the Latin course held annually in September. The Institute also Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. We caught up with continued to offer the joint course with the University of Rita to talk about her internship, her experience of Warwick on 'Resources and Techniques for the Study of studying at the Warburg and her plans for the future Renaissance and Early Modern Culture'. The week-long course which include completing a PhD at the Warburg Graduands and academic staff celebrate on the Warburg Institute’s front steps provides specialist research training to doctoral students Institute. The Warburg Institute offers postgraduate study in ideas, from the Erasmus scheme, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation working on Renaissance and Early Modern subjects in a range Did your experience at the Warburg Institute help images and society. It has (like its founder) a particular and the Mellon Foundation to undertake research at cultural of disciplines from universities across the UK and the rest of to equip you for the role? emphasis on the Renaissance, but our teaching stretches institutions across Europe. We also continued to offer our PhD the world. My MA course definitely equipped me with the right from the medieval to the modern. The academic mission student exchange programme with the Scuola Normale in skills base to successfully complete my internship, The 2018-19 student academic year came to a close with of the Institute is intrinsically linked to the movement of Pisa, Italy and welcomed one of their students for a three- particularly in regards to curatorial modules tailored the graduation ceremony held at the University of London’s people, collections and ideas across national borders and our month stay at the Institute. to developing museum knowledge. Most notably, my (UOL) iconic Senate House Building. We were delighted that postgraduate programmes continued to reflect this with our second optional module ‘Curating Renaissance Art and Our PhD students worked with academic staff at the Institute following the nomination from the Institute, Professor Roger students coming from many different countries. Exhibitions,’ for which I selected a botanical concept, to mount the Institute’s third postgraduate symposium: Chartier, a leading scholar in early modern European history not only introduced me to conceptual challenges but We were delighted to be able to continue to widen access to Mnemonic Waves. The one-day event brought sixty speakers and culture, was awarded a Doctor of Literature honoris also to the wider implications of displaying Renaissance our two MA programmes (the MA in Art History, Curatorship and attendees to the Institute from eight countries and causa from the University of London in this year’s School of paintings in museum/gallery environments. and Renaissance Culture and the MA in Cultural and formed a key part of the Institute’s events programme. Advanced Study’s graduation ceremony on 6 December. Intellectual History) by offering four fee scholarships to MA We were delighted that, Antonia Karaisl von Karais, a Professor Chartier’s exceptional body of work on Cultural What did you enjoy most about studying at the students thanks to the continued generosity of Daniel and Warburg Institute? Warburg PhD student, won the School of Advanced Study History and History of the Book is based on the crisscrossing Elizabeth Peltz and the American Friends of The Warburg (SAS) Research Student Seminar Prize. The seminars provide between literary criticism, bibliography and sociocultural In addition to the remarkable research community at Institute. We were also delighted to welcome two students a platform for post-graduate students to share research, history. the Institute, I studied alongside a wonderful cohort onto our PhD Programme who had won full funding from the of students, many of whom came from a variation of methodologies and ideas and the prize aims to recognise 2018-19 saw the continued success of Warburg alumni. London Arts and Humanities Partnership (the AHRC-funded disciplinary backgrounds. There was a wonderful sense students whose papers truly speak to an interdisciplinary Alumni from the MA and PhD programmes secured Doctoral Training Partnership). of support amongst us. This initiated very stimulating audience. prestigious internships at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and helpful discussions on formulating research topics The internationalism of our student programmes was also Sotheby’s Auction House, Christies Auction House and the and approaches to assessments. reflected in the scholarships our students secured to carry out National Gallery, as well as going on to pursue further study at fieldwork for their doctoral research. They received funding Universities across the globe.

12 Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 13 Research Research Research Body and Image in Arts and translator'. In other words while visitors were looking at the recorded choreography, they could feel on their wrist the Science (BIAS) heartbeat of one of the two dancers. By doing so we were interested in understanding whether people can actually tell whether they were feeling the heartbeat of the correct dancer, and more importantly whether that experience influenced the ways in which they experienced the choreography, aesthetically as well as emotionally. We have collected physiological, behavioural and introspective data from more than 100 participants and we are collaborating with the Studio Olafur Elliason, as well as colleagues from anthropology (Aarhus University) and physics (Imperial College) to analyse the data. Warburg’s Art History and the

Visitors at our experiment at Tate Modern feeling the dancers’ Politics of Language heartbeats

The ‘Body & Image in Arts & Science’ (BIAS) project, now in its last year, is focused on the performative and political The invitation to the opening of the Warburg Institute’s seminal 1941 exhibition, English Art and the Mediterranean. power of images. Images in their many different forms, from My project as a Research Associate for the “Bilderfahrzeuge” the Kunsthistorisches Institut (KHI) in Florence for one week paintings and icons to photography and beyond, have always research group concerns Aby Warburg’s language and in September, titled “Ways of Seeing Florence. Archives, been powerful cultural agents. Their performative power the relation of word and image. In his writings, he coined Autopsies and Art Historical Research in Italy around 1900”. It has been extensively discussed across disciplines, from art neologisms like ‘Pathosformel’, ‘Nachleben’, or ‘Bilderfahrzeuge’ brought together a group of international scholars, and we history and the history of emotions to media studies, and for his theories, and a study of his language allows a better discussed Warburg’s texts in relation to their historical context more recently in political sciences. Images, and especially understanding of the development of his ideas. In the last – the artworks, archives, institutions and academic networks photographs, operate differently from words, as they appear year, the two main areas of work were a current book-project he had worked with. to be truthful witnesses of reality. At BIAS, we focused on how and a study course in Florence: Overall, the year included concentrated archival research we, spectators and citizens, respond both physiologically and Warburg used language differently at different moments of but also field trips to the artworks and historic sites, it thus cognitively to such images, in a range of contexts, from visual his work, and my current book project focuses on the time connected Warburg’s theory and its objects in close relation arts and dance, to photojournalism , climate change and also 1914–1920, from the outbreak of WWI to the publication of to each other. self-perception. In addition to our lab-based research, our Aby and Mary Warburg with Alfred and Anna Doren, 1898 his lecture on Luther in the year 1920. This time has been team has engaged in a series of public events, from a panel – Steffen Haug little studied in Warburg’s work, and the book is to include discussion between artist Rainer Kohlberger and Professor Since 2014 The Warburg Institute has been home to an a comprehensive edition of unpublished archive materials Tsakiris at the London Science Museum to the residency at ambitious project called ‘Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburg’s Vision for Europe – Academic from that time – his war diaries, letters, lecture drafts, notes Tate Modern as part of their Tate Exchange programme. At Legacy and the Future of Iconology.’ Taking its name from and notably the working material for the preparation of the Tate Modern, in June 2019, we developed and implemented a Warburg’s clever coinage (literally ‘image-vehicles’), the Action and Responsibility in Luther study. It shows in detail, how the experience of the new method of empathically engaging audiences. We video- project sets out to explore the migration of images, objects, war influenced his academic research, and, with that, his Times of Crisis recorded a series of choreographies danced by two dancers. commodities and texts in a broad historical and geographical language. We video recorded a series of choreographies danced by context. It is generously funded by the German Federal Joanne Anderson (Co-I, Warburg Institute), Mick Finch (PI – two dancers. While they were dancing, we also recorded Ministry of Education and Research, and run in partnership Another time in Warburg’s work, his Florentine years Central St Martins, UAL) and Johannes Von Müller (Official their heartbeats. That allowed us to translate their heartbeats with the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Kunsthistorisches 1897–1902, have been the subject of a personal highlight: Project Partner, Bilderfahrzeuge International Research into tactile vibrations, which visitors at Tate Exchange could Institut (Florence) and Warburg Haus (Hamburg). a study course that Dr Claudia Wedepohl, Dr Carolin Project) were successful in their bid for an AHRC Research actually feel through a built device we aptly called 'a heart Behrmann (KHI) and I have organised in collaboration with Networking Grant. The project, A Vision for Europe –

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Academic Action and Responsibility in Times of Crises, which book, entitled The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult focuses on the material archive of The Warburg Institute Philosophy, was released by Palgrave Macmillan in the same exhibition, English Art and the Mediterranean, held in 1941, year the aforementioned article was published. Publications

Research commenced on 7 January 2019. Two of the five network In 2018, I joined the Warburg as a post-doctoral fellow, part meetings have been held so far, with the third taking place in Publications of the ERC project (partnering with at Université catholique The Institute publishes the Journal of the Warburg and on philosophical matters but also on how to live a long life. late September. Major outputs to date: an exhibition, Bilder Courtauld Institutes, which comes out annually, and two Arab luminaries such as al-Fārābī and Avicenna employed auf Wanderschaft: Das Warburg Institute und eine britische de Louvain) entitled "The origin and early development of philosophy in tenth-century al-Andalus: the impact of occasional book series: Warburg Institute Studies and Texts medical ideas in their philosophical writings, for instance, Kunstgeschichte at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in and Warburg Institute Colloquia. In addition, it collaborates when treating emotional distress as a kind of illness, when Munich, 29 May – 26 June 2019; the accompanying catalogue ill-defined materials and channels of transmission". I am preparing a critical edition, translation, and in-depth analysis with Oxford University Press on the Oxford-Warburg series. explaining the function of eyesight or when comparing the (published in English), Image Journeys: The Warburg Institute well-functioning state to the healthy human body. and a British Art History (Passau, Dieter Klinger Verlag, 2019), of the understudied text on talismanry and its theoretical The 2018 issue of the Journal, richly illustrated as always, edited by Anderson, Finch and Von Müller. In November foundations, Kitāb al-Nukhab/al-Baḥth attributed to the contains an array of high-quality original research, ranging The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous 2019, the British School at Rome will host the network for its famous scientist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (c. 720 – c. 815), and from medieval illuminated manuscripts to eighteenth-century Fame, Collectors and the Book fourth meeting, including a public lecture, colloquium, Ruins gauging its influence in al-Andalus. ecclesiastical censorship. A new feature introduced this year is Trade, edited by Jill Kraye and in the Archive: Constructing Visual Histories in Photography 2018-2019 was the academic year I also took on projects a ‘cluster’ of articles on the same topic: four authors examine Paolo Sachet, explores the and Broadcast Media, and related exhibition of archival that aim to explicitly clarify and rehabilitate the meaning of the Perambulations of Kent by the sixteenth-century English classical tradition through documents from The Warburg Institute and the BSR (13-14 sciences described as “occult” (khafiyya) and currents that may writer William Lambarde from a variety of angles, including the history of European printing, publishing and book November). Official Project Partners: Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby be referred to as “esoteric” (bāṭini), in the Islamic(ate) context the history of the book and of reading, and the development Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology; Zentralinstitut specifically. These are concepts and terms that were marred of antiquarian scholarship. collecting. Celebrating the 500th anniversary of the death für Kunstgeschichte, Munich; the British School at Rome. - 22 by post-Enlightenment epistemic suspicion, as they referred Two volumes were of Aldus Manutius, the most - From January to April 2019, Joanne Anderson served as an to knowledge and practices that were deemed “superstitious” published in the Colloquia famous printer and publisher application assessor for the Art History subject area group for and “irrational”. In 2019, I guest-edited a special issue of series, both based on of the Renaissance, the volume the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, which funds seven articles on Islamic esotericism for Correspondences: conferences which took focuses on his later reputation and on how his legacy has doctoral students. Journal for the Study of Esotericism. My contribution, “What place at the Institute. continued to resonate up to our own day. The three sections is Islamic Esotericism?”, is the first systematic study that Though differing cover the Aldine press after Aldus, private Aldine collections The Origin and Early surveys medieval and early modern works of scholars and considerably in subject in early modern Europe and the Aldine book trade and practitioners looking for the ways in which esotericism matter, each reflects the Development of Philosophy collecting from the nineteenth century to the present. The (bāṭiniyya) was conceptualised, and the shifting paradigms of Institute’s mission to study volume also contains a catalogue, illustrated with sixteen in Al-Andalus legitimacy that influenced its social orientations (individuals the enduring influence of and communities), epistemological foundations (intellectual colour plates, of the exhibition ‘Collecting the Renaissance: In an article published in the classical tradition. The vs. revelatory), exegetical practices (esoteric vs exoteric), and The Aldine Press (1494–1598)’, organized in conjunction with the New Yorker in 2015, the two books also share the language (between the translinguistic and the edifying). the Warburg colloquium and displayed in the British Library. writer, describes the aim of shedding light on Moreover, with Francesca Leoni, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, The volume addresses a wide readership, and its contributors Warburg as an “eccentric” areas which, though vitally important for our understanding and Farouk Yahya, we edited a sizeable volume entitled include an international cast of academics along with a place where “magic and of cultural and intellectual history, have received little or Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice in which distinguished representative of the book trade and a well- science, evil eyes and saints’ no attention in the past; and both lay the groundwork for we and the contributors unpack what occult sciences known book collector. live”. It is, he writes, “eternally further research in neglected areas of scholarship. Philosophy and practices meant to their medieval, early modern, and shared by graduate and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam, edited by Peter The Oxford-Warburg series, edited by Ian Maclean and Bill contemporary agents. students, whether the old Adamson and Peter E. Pormann, investigates the numerous Sherman, published Making Mathematical Culture: University kind, with suède elbow The Warburg has led the way in redressing the marginalisation links between philosophy and medicine in the Islamic world and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples by Richard Oosterhoff, patches, or the new kind, of the study of the occult sciences as part and parcel of from the seventh to the eleventh century. The twelve articles a former short-term fellow at the Institute. By revealing the with many piercings.” I was Islamic(ate) and Christian(ate) medieval and early modern by leading scholars in the field highlight the many renowned key role played by early sixteenth-century French humanists of the new kind, and I am scientific and philosophical achievements, making this odd Arab philosophers who were also physicians and show that in university teaching of mathematics, the monograph brings now a historian of the historian feel intellectually at home at this Institute. the Arabic reception of the two biggest names in Greek this discipline within the framework of the classical tradition. A representation of the ancient occult sciences and medicine, Hippocrates and Galen, had a strong philosophical temple (barabi). folio from a -Liana Saif dimension: Hippocrates became a spokesman for ethical manuscript known as Kitab al- esotericism in the medieval wisdom; and Galen, as well as influencing ideas on ethics, bulhan or "Book of Wonders". Islamicate ecumene and MS: Bodleian Or. 133 the Latin “West”. My first was consulted for his views on the nature of plants. Aristotle, on the other hand, was regarded as an authority not only

16 Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 17 The Inaugural Warburg Institute Summer School Warburg in Argentina

former MA students, Guillermo Willis, largely because it was so Summer School clear, well-structured and well-illustrated that even Paul could

follow the argument. Familiar faces at the Institute in London, in Argentina Warburg Davide Stimilli, Horst Bredekamp and Uwe Fleckner, gave lucid presentations of their recent work on Warburg which filled the lecture theatre. Paul and Bill also spoke there, on the history of the Photographic Collection and the Warburg Renaissance Project respectively, and at the request of Roberto, they each gave further talks; Bill offering a Warburgian perspective on librarianship (fielding questions on everything from National Library of Argentina classification to digitisation), while Paul gave a sort of visual Interest in the Institute’s founder continues to grow quiz in which he showed iconographic puzzles and asked the throughout the world, and in April 2019 Warburg came audience to solve them (at this Valentina and Uwe Fleckner to Buenos Aires, with an exhibition, Ninfas, Serpientes, were particularly gifted). Constellaciones: la Teoría Artistica de Aby Warburg, at the Students prepare their final presentations in the Photo The conference was timed to Collectione Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, and a conference, Simposio coincide with the opening the Internacional Warburg 2019, at the Biblioteca Nacional. The “Aby Warburg, the Picture Atlas and the Making of Visual Summer School participants viewing a book exhibition, which continued conference was initiated by Alberto Manguel and organized Culture” for a further two months. The What the students said: by one of our former MA students, Roberto Casazza, who show, curated by the cultural wrote to many of us at the Institute, inviting us to take part. Led by Warburg Institute and Bilderfahrzeuge Project historian José Emilio Burucúa, '...it has significantly changed my approach Unfortunately, in the midst of an economic crisis in Argentina, staff, with assistance from the National Gallery and the was unexpected and most no funds could be found to cover our travel. Nevertheless Victoria and Albert Museum, 18 students from 11 different to studies and research - perhaps even the enjoyable. Instead of being a two members of staff, Bill Sherman and Paul Taylor, and a PhD countries - including senior academics, undergraduates ultimate goal of my studies....' documentary exhibition about student, Valentina Cacopardo, decided to stump up funds to and professional artists - undertook five intensive days Warburg, it was a collection '...thank you for making us so incredibly travel south and join the celebration. investigating the creation of Aby Warburg’s Picture Atlas of works from Buenos Aires welcome; for being patient with us when Mnemosyne, and the influence of his thinking on art The conference was one of the largest academic events collections which dealt with history, visual culture and contemporary exhibition practice. we got carried away, and for opening up (so ever devoted to Warburg, or to any other art historian; 111 themes of particular interest The programme included lectures, discussions, guided widely) the unique and valuable resources talks were given in the course of 5 days. The great majority La Teoria Artistica de Aby to Warburg – even though Warburg Exhibition at the viewings, and hands-on practical work with materials from of The Warburg Institute to us - not least of the speakers were from Argentina (58) and Brazil (30), Warburg himself could not the Warburg’s photographic collections as the students Museo Nacional de Bellas of which being the knowledge (and with six speakers from Mexico, Colombia and Chile. From Artes have known any of the exhibits, created their own present-day version of the Picture Atlas. generosity in sharing it) of the staff who the northern hemisphere there were four Germans, four some of which were made Italians and two Canadians, as well as one American and one after his death and many of which were unfamiliar outside The summer school group were quick to return very worked with us....' Englishman – Bill and Paul. Argentina. Images connected, sometimes in allusive ways, to detailed, valuable and positive feedback on the course. 'I joined the Summer School with only the nymphs, heroes, serpents, magic, astrology and memory were Francesco Mercuri, a bursary recipient from Humboldt- The event moved between a room and a lecture hall on all placed side by side. The result was a powerful evocation of Universitaet, Berlin, was particularly interested in the focus most basic knowledge and understanding very different floors of the monumental brutalist Biblioteca Warburg’s interests, and a chance to enjoy works entirely new on Aby Warburg’s approach to visual culture: “how his ideas of Aby Warburg and the Picture Atlas; I Nacional (fig), necessitating a long and convoluted scurry to us Europeans, who had never travelled so far south before. appeal to people from so many different backgrounds and left feeling that I had been given a really from one to the other when venues changed. The lecture histories”, and wrote about his experiences for the Warburg thorough introduction, which went far hall is named after the Biblioteca’s most famous librarian – Besides the Warburg events there was time to enjoy this blog: https://warburg.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2019/10/17/warburg- beyond what I anticipated I would learn. perhaps the most famous librarian who has ever lived – Jorge expansive and impressive city, as well as the kindness and institute-summer-school-francesco/ I also left with a great interest in learning Luis Borges. hospitality of local scholars, who took us to restaurants, showed us hidden-away sights, and engaged in enthusiastic more, and wanting to use The Warburg Bill and Paul have very weak Spanish and Portuguese, and debate on everything from anthropology to world politics Institute Library and Iconographic so made a beeline for lectures given in English, although and rock and roll. It was a week none of us will forget. Collection in future.' Paul did manage to enjoy a talk in Spanish by another of our

18 The Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 Warburg Institute Annual Review 2019 19 postgraduate programmes and student community. The The Warburg Renaissance: Library will be expanded to allow for at least 20 years of Edmund de Waal, Libraries and growth, along with refurbished stacks and improved climate control. In addition, the Archive and Photographic Collection Exile Transforming The Warburg Institute will be relocated into new, purpose-designed spaces, alongside bespoke labs for conservation and imaging. The Warburg Institute is embarking on a £14.5m architectural and The Warburg Renaissance will transform our profile and

The Warburg Renaissance The Warburg intellectual transformation of its home in Bloomsbury. As part of programmes: Renaissance The Warburg this project, the Institute launched a major fundraising campaign, - The gallery will restore Aby Warburg’s original commitment to combining display, discovery and debate; seeking to raise £5m towards the redevelopment. - The enhanced spaces for teaching and study will help the Institute to meet ambitious targets for doubling postgraduate programmes, and allow us to host more research projects, visiting fellows and resident artists; and - The digital lab and its projects will not only make collections available to people outside London but will involve the Warburg in innovative thinking about how we search for and interpret images in the age of Google, Facebook and Instagram. The total project cost is £14.5m and the University of London have committed the core budget of £9.5m. Thanks to its community of generous supporters, the Institute had raised £1.65m by the end of the academic year (£2.6m at the time of going to print), against the remaining target of £5m. The On 27th March 2019, the Institute held a reception Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung provided the significant first and talk titled Libraries and Exile with artist and author step for the campaign with a lead donation of £1m in March Edmund de Waal. It was devoted to the intertwined 2019. This was followed by a gift of £200k from the American fate of books and people and the need for artistic and Friends of The Warburg Institute, a membership group of historical projects to help us understand them. The talk US-based supporters and alumni who exist to support the offered a personal account of the movement of exiled strategic aims of the Warburg and promote the Institute books and authors, previewing de Waal’s exhibition, in North America. Most recently, the Wolfson Foundation psalm, at the Venice Biennale. committed a grant of £450k, the second biggest grant in the Arts & Humanities category for the foundation’s bi-annual The evening was the perfect occasion to announce funding round. publicly the Warburg Renaissance fundraising campaign and the lead donation of £1m from the Hermann The Institute will intensify development efforts to secure the The Warburg Renaissance is driven by a complete renovation special collections, exhibitions, and events. Through creating Reemtsma Stiftung. It was also an opportunity for the support needed to deliver this ambitious programme by of the Institute’s building – designed, like most of the a more open and accessible building, the Institute will be able Institute to launch the Warburg Family Circle, an initiative working with the University of London Development Office University’s Bloomsbury Estate, by Charles Holden, best to welcome in and educate a wider audience. aimed at providing a central place for members of the and the Warburg Charitable Trust, an independent charity known for his work on nearby Senate House and dozens Warburg family to celebrate their shared lineage and At the heart of the renovation and extension planned by devoted to the advancement of the Institute who recently of stations across the London Underground. The project commemorate family history. Stirling Prize-winning architects Haworth Tompkins is a new welcomed three new Trustees to the board. provides the opportunity to renew the Institute’s founding public hub that will revive the Institute’s early emphasis on The Warburg is itself a library exiled and, as such, is mission and apply it to contemporary cultural, political and For further information on the Warburg Renaissance, visit display, nearly double the size of the lecture theatre, and steeped in the rich heritage of the displaced scholars social understanding. It will bring Aby Warburg’s ambitious www.warburg.sas.ac.uk/support/warburg-renaissance introduce a new digital laboratory in opened-up, double- and collections that have sheltered here. The mission vision to life and fill in Holden’s never-completed courtyard, height spaces on the Ground Floor. A teaching suite with To find out more about how you can contribute towards the to provide a safe haven for endangered people and enhancing the Institute’s academic resources, teaching enlarged seminar rooms and improved group study areas project, please contact Lewis Jones, Development Manager, materials is an integral part of the Institute’s values and is facilities and public offerings, and creating new facilities for will help us meet our ambitious targets for growing our [email protected]. a cornerstone of the Warburg Renaissance.

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Haworth Tompkins Project Architect The Warburg Library acquired 2,124 printed books Number of visits to the Warburg Library catalogue 2018/19 Data 1,556 as purchases We had 760,576 page views. Elizabeth Flower 143 as exchanges Our libguides (brand new at that time) received 31678 views

The Warburg Renaissance The Warburg 425 as donations Photographic – number of users of the iconographic We want to make the Warburg easier to find, more project. The designs of some of the spaces in Senate House and 49 printed offprints database 33,114 Archive – number of users of the catalogue. 91 scholars comfortable to use, enhance the Institute’s academic and 55 Broadway have therefore been extremely influential. and our total collection development budget was resources and public offerings, and create new facilities for used the archive. 1,382 session visits on Calmview online We have also looked at Lina Bo Bardi’s São Paulo Museum of apportioned special collections, exhibitions, and events. database where 53,798 records were viewed. 98 orders for Art for the innovative new display space, Niall Mclaughlin’s 71% for printed material reproductions of photographs held in the Collection. In this blog post, we chatted to Elizabeth Flower, Project Nazrin Shah Centre and Gatti Routh Rhodes BGMC building 59% as books Architect from Haworth Tompkins, about the proposed for the new lecture theatre auditorium aesthetic, and Peter 41% as periodicals Events architectural designs (currently awaiting planning permission) Zumthor’s Kolumba museum for the delightful use of 29% for electronic resources 33 lectures to find out more: textured grey brick. The total number of registered readers with current 52 seminars 12 workshops Can you tell us a bit about the proposed design and What are you most excited about in the proposed library tickets was 2,326 87 reading group sessions the benefits it will bring? building design? Academic Staff 34% 5,366 attendees at events We’ve created a series of internal views to give a sense of Students 46% Our designs intend to hold on to the much-loved character transition and connection between spaces, including the Gallery-Library-Museum Staff 5% Impact and Engagement and lived-in feel of the existing building, while also giving entrance foyer, lecture theatre and reading rooms, which I Private Scholars 15% it a new lease of life, to enable it to grow and flourish long 7221 Twitter followers hope will be really dynamic and exciting. Additionally, the into the future. About 70% of the existing building will be 52% from Greater London 2250 Instagram followers reader’s spaces in the two new lightwells should also be a refurbished internally and a two-storey extension will be 24% from the UK (beyond London) 12185 Facebook likes particular moment of joy within the building. built in the courtyard. Additionally, the external façade will 24% from Overseas Visits and uses from website stats be cleaned, the roof replaced, and a new heating system Have there been any challenges in putting together Our overseas readers originated from around the Unique users 93,446 installed throughout. the design? globe, with 73% from Pageviews 530,959 Balancing the conflicting requirements of books and people – The ground and lower ground floors will undergo the most USA (20%) Blog views, visitors and length of time on page environmentally, spatially and financially – they rarely appear significant change, becoming more accessible with a new Italy (16%) to see eye to eye! Unique users 5,156 café area, experimental display area and enhanced lecture Germany (9%) Pageviews 10,827 theatre. As a result, these spaces will provide new amenities The design of the courtyard extension also posed a challenge Spain (7%) to bring the Institute body together and will welcome in and in resolving the tension between new and old. We wanted to France (6%) Research educate a wider external audience. ensure the new parts feel distinct but still fit comfortably with Poland (5%) Total number of Fellows: 38 the existing building. Belgium (3%) The Archive and Photographic Collection will be relocated Studying Canada (3%) into new, purpose-designed spaces and will benefit from What other building projects have you worked on MA students 17 Brazil (2%) a new shared top-lit reading room within the courtyard that you are most proud of and why? PhD Students 20 Greece (2%) extension. The Library will be expanded on the upper floors to I’ve worked on a variety of projects, from housing to university Occasional Students 7 allow for 20 years of future growth of the collection and total buildings to artist’s studios, but I have to say that the Warburg and 27% (in varying proportions) from reinstatement of Aby Warburg’s cataloguing system. Renaissance is probably the closest to my heart. Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, What are your inspirations for the current design? Designing a new home for the Bede House; a youth and India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Luxemburg, Malta, Mexico, It goes without saying that the Kulturwissenschaftliche learning disability charity in Southwark, was an incredibly Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway The Philippines, Portugal, Bibliothek Warburg, now the Warburg Haus in Hamburg, has rewarding and interesting process. What I love most about Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, been a constant point of reference when contemplating how architecture is its ability to transform people’s daily lives – it’s South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, to continue Aby Warburg’s legacy. We also have great respect a careful balancing act of understanding the human needs of Turkey, Uruguay for the building’s original architect Charles Holden and have the users and transforming them into beautiful buildings. continually questioned how he might have approached this

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Income 2017-18 2018-19 Annual Accounts 2018/19 Accounts Annual

Funding Body Grants £1,219,220 £1,219,221 Other Grants £53,755 £110,483 Research Grants and Contracts £405,417 £607,000 Tuition Fees and Educational Contracts £263,000 £271,861 Commercial Income £172,152 £156,960 Donation £4,875 Other Income £37,503 £61,913 Internal Income £2,117,004 £2,283,540 Total Income £4,268,052 £4,715,853

Expenditure

Staff Cost £1,734,524 £2,176,522 Indirect Staff Costs £113,781 £90,635 Estates Expenditure £15,219 £11,770 Other Academic Expenditure £424,424 £362,617 Information Technology Expenditure £5,139 £8,861 Admin Expenditure £124,959 £179,854 Professional Fees £46,002 £53,882 Finance Expenditure £1,536 £555 Internal Charges and Recharges £1,199,738 £1,394,132 Total Expenditure £3,665,322 £4,278,828

Total (Deficit)/Surplus £602,745 £437,025

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