Ref No | WIA GC/19462 |
Title | Warburg, Aby to Saxl, Fritz 06/04/1927 |
Writer | Warburg, Aby |
Place1 | Hamburg |
Recipient | Saxl, Fritz, styled 'Car.mo Don Federico' |
Date | 06/04/1927 |
DateNote | Warburg/Saxl |
Format | typescript, copy and original |
Contents | informs him that his brother Max will celebrate his 60th birthday on 05/06/1927; is pleased that Saxl enjoys his stay in Madrid; is looking forward to conversations on Velazquez; 30 years ago his 'aunt Käthe' [Katharina Oppenheim] has given him a book on Calderon; mentions Braccio del Biano; mentions his physician, Miss Dr. Gertrud Samson; Miss [Ingeborg] Wegner from Freiburg is very intelligent; advises Saxl to look at arazzi in Madrid, some with astrological patterns; on Klibansky's 'discovery' re world view of Cusanus and Klibansky's interpretation which turned out to be wrong; Karl Lilienfeld wrote from San Francisco re exhibition in Chemnitz Kunsthütte; Lilienfeld will put all his material to Törnell's disposal; on the visit by the publisher Otto Reichl from Darmstadt, whom Warburg calls 'quite an idiot'; Reichl wanted to call at Much's, but Warburg enlightened him about Much; on Marc Rosenberg's Ovid editions, on Demotte's book on French tapestries; Bing and G. A. Reichard go to the theatre to see Massay-Pallenberg; Warburg has also seen the play and likes it; mentions Duscha [Irma von Duczynska], although her work is Kitsch, it is more to his liking that Dix's; is very interested in Saxl's find re Calderon's Perseus; wants to find early illustrated editions |
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Persons
Code | PersonName | Dates |
DS/UK/141 | Rosenberg; Marc (22/08/1852-1930); Prof. Dr. | 22/08/1852-1930 |
DS/UK/716 | Saxl; Fritz (08/01/1890-22/03/1948); Prof. Dr. phil. | 08/01/1890-22/03/1948 |
DS/UK/839 | Oppenheim; Katharina, née von Kuffner (29/06/1862-09/03/1933) | 29/06/1862-09/03/1933 |
DS/UK/917 | Duczynska; Irma von (29/01/1870-19/01/1932) | 29/01/1870-19/01/1932 |
DS/UK/1142 | Klibansky; Raymond (15/10/1905-05/08/2005); Prof. Dr. phil. | 15/10/1905-05/08/2005 |
DS/UK/1490 | Bing; Gertrud (07/06/1892-03/07/1964); Prof. Dr. phil. | 07/06/1892-03/07/1964 |