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Cultural events throughout the city , including museums , film showings , live theater , and art exhibits
Mary Warburg portrays her son-in-law , Peter Paul Braden , 1928 . ( Archive Warburg Institu te , London )
A Hamburg Art Power Couple : The Warburgs BY HOLLY T .
Hamburg can ’ t get enough of one of its historic cultural luminaries : art historian and culture theorist Aby Warburg ( 1866- 1929 ). A reconstruction of the Mnemosyne Atlas , Warburg ’ s attempt to create a “ map ” or system to study the “ afterlife of images ” and “ human visual memory ” just closed in October at the Sammlung Falckenberg in Harburg . In March , Lightening Symbol and Snake Dance opens at the Museum am Rothenbaum für Kunst und Kulturen ( MARKK ). This exhibition focuses on Warburg ’ s fascination with the native cultural symbols and rituals of the American Southwest .
Warburg , a rebel against the banking tradition of his family and against traditional ( Western European ) art history , traded his firstborn privilege to run the family bank with a younger brother for a lifetime unlimited budget for books . The library he built in the 1920s to house the 60,000 volumes he eventually
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