The Technical Apparatus of the Warburg Haus

The article focuses on the technical apparatus installed at the Warburg Haus in Hamburg by Aby Warburg and how this is crucial in understanding the development and the evolution of the Mnemosyne Atlas. This apparatus is examined to determine that the KBW was a highly advance site of image production, having a bureaucratic structure that resembles that of a bank. Fritz Saxl is discussed as bringing continuity to an image led form of art history when the Warburg moved to London. Saxl and Witkover’s work is seen as a fore-runner of Kenneth Clark’s Civilization and John Berger’s Ways of Seeing and as an engramatic species of Warburg’s Atlas.