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Mary Warburg, born M. Hertz, (Hamburg, October 13, 1866–December 4, 1934) was a German painter and sculptor. She was married to the art historian Aby Warburg, the founder of the Warburg Institute.

Mary Warburg was a daughter of the Hamburg senator and merchant Adolph Ferdinand Hertz and his wife Maria, née Goßler. From the age of 16 she took private drawing lessons with and often travelled with her father. She married the art historian Aby Warburg in 1897. Together they went to Florence, where Mary Warburg entered into artistic exchange with the sculptor Adolf Hildebrandt and the painter Arnold Böcklin. After four years in the Tuscan metropolis, Mary and Aby Warburg returned to Hamburg.

Mary Warburg created drawing, pastels, watercolours – landscapes as well as portraits and figurative studies – and sculptures. She exhibited her works since the 1890s in Hamburg, where the director of the Kunsthalle Alfred Lichtwark was a prominent supporter of her art. She contributed illustrations to publications the magazine Pan (1896/97). Her sculptures after her marriage depict friends and family members.

In 1930 she completed her most prominent artwork, the bust of her husband Aby Warburg, copies of which are shown in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg and the Warburg Institute, London. Her further works are kept in the Hamburger Kunsthalle as well as in private collections.

In summer 2021, the Ernst Barlach-Haus in Hamburg is dedicating an exhibition to her artistic oeuvre.

Literature

 * Ute Haug: Mary Warburg, geb. Hertz – Künstlerin der Avantgarde?, in: Ulrich Luckhardt (ed.): Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde in Hamburg zwischen 1890 und 1933. exhibition catalogue, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Vol. 1, Hamburg 2006, p. 29–49 [German].
 * Bernd Roeck: Florenz 1900. Die Suche nach Arkadien. C. H. Beck, Munich 2001 [German].
 * Bärbel Hedinger, Michael Diers: Mary Warburg. Porträt einer Künstlerin. Leben |&#160;Werk. In collaboration with Andrea Völker. Hirmer, Munich 2020 [German].