Claudia Wedepohl
The Warburg Institute, University of London School of Advanced Study (UK)
The story of Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne
2025–2026: Fall
Claudia Wedepohl is an art historian with a degree in Italian literature. She joined the staff of the Warburg Institute in 2000 and has been the Institute’s archivist since 2006.
Educated at the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg, she has held fellowships at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin and the Research Centre Morphomata at the University of Cologne.
Her publications focus on fifteenth-century Italian art and architecture, and on the genesis of Warburg’s ideas, key terms and concepts; they include In den glänzenden Reichen des ewigen Himmels. Cappella del Perdono und Tempietto delle Muse im Herzogpalast von Urbino (2009), The Muses and Their Afterlife in Post-Classical Europe, ed. by Kathleen W. Christian, Clare E. L. Guest and Claudia Wedepohl (2014), Warburg, Cassirer und Einstein im Gespräch. Kepler als Schlüssel der Moderne (with Horst Bredekamp, 2015) and Aby Warburg 150. Work, Legacy, Promise, ed. by David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl (2024).
Claudia is also co-editor of Warburg’s Gesammelte Schriften series (De Gruyter, Berlin).
More information: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/claudia-wedepohl