| Ref No | WIA GC/19496 |
| Title | Saxl, Fritz to Warburg, Aby 15/11/1927 |
| Writer | Saxl, Fritz |
| Place1 | Hamburg |
| Recipient | Warburg, Aby |
| Date | 15/11/1927 |
| DateNote | Warburg/Saxl [cf. revised version in Ia.1.7.1.] |
| Format | typescript |
| Contents | detailed report of the work in KBW in the last two months; is keen that the staff work independently; is pleased with Mr. H. Volmer; Clara Hertz has developed greatly; [Franz] Alber worked well under [Edgar] Breitenbach; Mr. F. and Mrs. Wendel were very cooperative caretakers; Eva von Eckardt likes her work, even if she is an outsider; Hermann Noack remained uninvolved; Meier is hard working, had a very tough time with his PhD; statement of expenditure of staff costs; detailed statistic of library users, mentions [Walter] Solmitz, [Eric] Weil [working on Pietro Pomponazzi], [Adolf] Meyer, Pia von Reutter, [Marie] Schütt, Rudolf Wittkower, Mrs. Gully Pfeffer who works on West African religion, Mrs. Darboven, Count Hardenberg, from Darmstadt, Hermann Springer, from Berlin, da Silva Rosa from Amsterdam, F. Pospisil, G. Scholem, Margarete Bieber; on book orders; on books from the [Siegfried] Seligmann estate; he selected 175 volumes; interlibrary loan system does not work very well; reports on cataloguing, mentions [Ludwig Heinrich] Heydenreich; reports on photographic collection, mentions Breitenbach; on research trips to Cues and Chemnitz; on his trip to Dresden: Saxl achieved that Rembrandt's 'Manoah' will be x-rayed; on his work in preparation for the Atlas; he thinks that the Atlas will comprise some 400 pictures, grouped into two: 1) the gods of classical antiquity changed into Olympians and demons in the Middle Ages and 2) the restitution of their classical forms in the Renaissance |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/72 | Schütt; Marie (1888-1978); Prof. Dr. | 1888-1978 |
| DS/UK/270 | Breitenbach; Edgar (1903-1977); Dr. phil. | 1903-1977 |
| DS/UK/299 | Hertz; Clara | |
| DS/UK/716 | Saxl; Fritz (08/01/1890-22/03/1948); Prof. Dr. phil. | 08/01/1890-22/03/1948 |
| DS/UK/1303 | Weil; Erich (08/06/1904-); Prof. Dr. phil. | 08/06/1904- |
| DS/UK/1323 | Noack; Hermann (23/02/1895-19/11/1977); Prof. Dr. phil. | 23/02/1895-19/11/1977 |
| DS/UK/1409 | Wittkower; Rudolf (22/06/1901-11/10/1971); Prof. Dr. phil. | 22/06/1901-11/10/1971 |
| DS/UK/1538 | Heydenreich; Ludwig Heinrich (23/03/1903-14/09/1978); Prof. Dr. phil. | 23/03/1903-14/09/1978 |
| DS/UK/1561 | Eckardt; Eva von (1898-1978) | 1898-1978 |
| DS/UK/1690 | Volmer; Hans | |
| DS/UK/1757 | Alber; Franz | |
| DS/UK/1004 | Solmitz; Walter (19/01/1905-23/08/1962); Dr. phil. | 19/01/1905-23/08/1962 |