| Ref No | WIA GC/1910/150 |
| Title | Warburg, Aby to Dwelshauvers, Jacques 31/12/1910 |
| Writer | Warburg, Aby |
| Place1 | Hamburg |
| Recipient | Dwelshauvers, Jacques, styled 'Mesnil, Jacques' |
| Date | 31/12/1910 |
| Format | typescript, transcript made by Brockhaus |
| Contents | can understands Mesnil's [Jacques Dwelshauvers] ambivalent feelings about Florence, looking down on the backward Florentines; he shares his feelings, he is too much of an 'action man' to endure such a spectacle for a long time; he rather lives without aestheticism than without energy and courage; on his work, 'to catalogue the clownish jumps of the human spirit'; he can do this better in Hamburg than in Florence, where the aesthetic phraseology obfuscates the documentary value of images; he is very interested in astrology and superstition and will tell him more about it next March in Florence; he wants to travel with his wife first to Rome, then to Florence; mentions Mesnil's son Lorenzo; Warburg has read Mesnil's [Jacques Dwelshauvers] article on the Florentine apprentice painters ['L'éducation des peintres florentins au 15e siècle'] but finds Mesnil's view too optimistic and bucolic in judging the position of artists in society; the milieu of the cloth merchants has surely pulled down attempts to rise above purely mercantile considerations; the type of a painter like Pinturicchio has always been more popular than Michelangelo until he became fashionable |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/147 | Dwelshauvers; Lorenzo | |
| DS/UK/2245 | Warburg; Aby Moritz (13/06/1866-26/10/1929); Professor, Dr. | 13/06/1866-26/10/1929 |
| DS/UK/2274 | Mesnil/Dwelshauvers; Jean Jacques (1872-1940) | 1872-1940 |