| Ref No | WIA GC/1921/268 |
| Title | Kautzsch, Rudolf to Warburg, Aby 21/09/1921 |
| Writer | Kautzsch, Rudolf |
| Place1 | Frankfurt am Main |
| Recipient | Warburg, Aby |
| Date | 21/09/1921 |
| Format | manuscript |
| Contents | thanks him for a copy of Warburg's Luther book; found it very interesting, spellbinding; feels ashamed because art historians are not interested in the contents of things, Cappella Chigi etc, and only stick to problems of form; Warburg found 'nests of darkness' from Babylon to Northern Germany; humanity achieved a breakthrough in the 16th century, from being chained to fate to understanding reality; Kautzsch himself had studied Dürer's 'Melencolia I' and seen the despair in Paul Weber's sense; Warburg's book goes beyond Giehlow, clears up the last questions which even Wölfflin could not solve; Warburg's research confirms Kautzsch's understanding of history of art; his life's ambition is to write the history of the development of medieval architecture which can stand as mirror of medieval intellectual history; he tries to provide more than simply a history of how things were represented; the change is visible in sculpture, in the development of religious life from the 13th to the 14th century; it is interesting to note that the 'Wiener Schule' has developed on similar lines in the last few years, he received a letter from [Max[ Dvorak in this vein shortly before Dvorak's death |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/44 | Kautzsch; Rudolf (1868-1945); Prof. Dr. | 1868-1945 |
| DS/UK/186 | Weber; Paul; Prof. Dr. | |
| DS/UK/979 | Wölfflin; Heinrich (21/06/1864-19/07/1945); Prof. Dr. phil. | 21/06/1864-19/07/1945 |
| DS/UK/1510 | Giehlow; Carl (1863-03/03/1915); Dr. phil. | 1863-03/03/1915 |
| DS/UK/2028 | Dvorak; Max (24/06/1874-08/02/1921); Prof. Dr. | 24/06/1874-08/02/1921 |
| DS/UK/2245 | Warburg; Aby Moritz (13/06/1866-26/10/1929); Professor, Dr. | 13/06/1866-26/10/1929 |