| Ref No | WIA GC/10169 |
| Title | Warburg, Aby to Warburg Mary 08/07/1902 |
| Writer | Warburg, Aby |
| Place1 | Ostend, Hotel Continental |
| Recipient | [Warburg, Mary] |
| Date | 08/07/1902 |
| DateNote | FC |
| Format | manuscript and typescript, copy made for Max Adolph Warburg |
| Contents | forwards one sheet from his diary; in the morning he left Ostend for Bruges; he visited the city art gallery where he ran into Max J Friedländer; it was a lovely surprise; Friedländer went with him also to the big exhibition, but could not stay; the exhibition is overwhelmingly good; very good paintings by [Hans] Memling, among them Mr. and Mrs. Tommaso Portinari, owned by Leopold Goldschmidt, Paris, a distant relative of Warburg's; Friedländer introduced him to a German, Dr. [Gustav] Ludwig, a scholar working on documents and coats-of-arms in Venice; he also met his friend [Albert] Marignan, from Paris, who introduced him to Mr. [Maurice] Willmotte, from Ghent; Wilmotte gave him a letter of introduction to Mr. Haesken [?] in Ghent and to the archivist in Bruges, [Louis] Gilliodts van Severen; Warburg also met Professor Köpping, from Berlin; Warburg visited the Tommaso Portinari house in the Rue des Aiguilles; it serves as a convent, but he managed to be allowed in and was shown round and saw Medici roundels on the walls and imprese on ceilings, the coat-of-arms of Piero de Medici with the three falcons and the balls, a ring with three feathers, the golden fleece of the Badelin; the prioress told him that under the whitewash were colourful paintings but they had no money to restore the paintings; Warburg is convinced that it is the work of Robbia but does not know whether it is the portrait of Piero and Lucrezia; afterwards Warburg visited Gilliodts who showed him documents on Tommaso [Portinari]; Warburg wants to return to Bruges the next day, and leave the day after next via Ghent and Cologne; Warburg saw a car accident in Bruges; he saw a fast train thunder through the station, the locomotive driver with flowing fair hair and a red neckerchief, like a wild bird - a beautiful sight; is sorry that Mary cannot be with him, thinks already of returning to Bruges with Mary; sends 'schrub-schrub' to Detta [Marietta Warburg] |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/11 | Friedländer; Max [Jacob] (1867-1958); Dr. | 1867-1958 |
| DS/UK/421 | Gilliodts van Severen; Louis (04/07/1827-24/07/1915); Dr. | 04/07/1827-24/07/1915 |
| DS/UK/555 | Marignan; Albert (b. 1858) | b. 1858 |
| DS/UK/371 | Braden; Marietta, née Warburg (11/01/1899-12/02/1973) | 11/01/1899-12/02/1973 |
| DS/UK/646 | Warburg; Max Adolph (10/07/1902-22/10/1974); Dr. phil. | 10/07/1902-22/10/1974 |
| DS/UK/955 | Warburg; Mary, née Hertz (13/10/1866-04/12/1934) | 13/10/1866-04/12/1934 |
| DS/UK/502 | Wilmotte; Maurice (11/07/1861-09/06/1942); Prof. Dr. | 11/07/1861-09/06/1942 |