The Warburg Archive collects materials relating to the history of the discipline of art history, especially in Hamburg. These include, above all, material related to Aby Warburg and the cultural studies library he founded in Warburg as well as the circle of scholars associated with the Warburg Library of Cultural studies (“Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Warburg”,K.B.W) , such as Fritz Saxl, Gertrud Bing and numerous students of the 1920s.