Aby Warburg, his biography and biographers
Aby Warburg is one of the most challenging scholars of the 20th century. At the beginning of this age his ideas and methods were considered path breaking and audacious, then his name was almost forgotten, and came into high demand later, when the international art studies turned back again to their German-speaking roots. A man of brilliant knowledge (besides classic art history he studied psychology, mathematics and anthropology), constant explorer and profound thinker, Warburg has established the good neighborhood principle for books in his library - Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek, and his reason for iconological method was a call for the extension of art history borders and interdisciplinary discourse in humanities. Keywords: methodology of art studies, interpretation, iconology, Warburg Library, intellectual biography.