The Aby Warburg Prize (German Aby Warburg-Preis; formerly Aby M. Warburg-Preis) is a science prize of the city of Hamburg. It was established in 1979. Since 1980, it is donated by the senate of the city for excellence in the humanities and social sciences. It is named after the Hamburg-born art historian Aby Warburg. The prize is worth 25,000 Euros and awarded every four years. Young scientists will receive a scholarship of 10,000 euros.

Award winners

1980 Jan Białostocki, art historian

1984 Meyer Schapiro, art historian

1988 Michael Baxandall, art historian

1992 Carlo Ginzburg, historian

1996 Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist and ethnologist

2000 Natalie Zemon Davis, historian

2002 Rüdiger Campe, professor of German literature

2004 Horst Bredekamp, art historian

2008 Werner Hofmann, art historian

2012 Martin Warnke, art historian

2016 Sigrid Weigel, professor of German literature

2020 Georges Didi-Huberman, art historian

See also

List of social sciences awards

References

External links

Kulturpreise: Aby Warburg-Preis

Social sciences awards

Awards established in 1979

1979 establishments in Germany

Humanities awards

German awards

Hamburg

Aby Warburg Prize