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Edward Warburg Born Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg
June 5, 1908
White Plains, New York, U.S. Died September 1992
Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. Cause of death heart failure Residence 730 Park Avenue, Park Avenue, Lenox Hill, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Wilton, Connecticut, U.S. Education Middlesex School Alma mater Harvard University Occupation Philanthropist Religion Judaism Spouse(s) Mary Warburg Children David Warburg
Daphne Astor Parent(s) Felix M. Warburg
Frieda Schiff Relatives Jacob Schiff (maternal grandfather)
James Loeb (great-uncle)
Aby Warburg (paternal uncle)
Edward Warburg (1908-1992) was an American philanthropist and patron of the arts from New York City. He taught Modern Art at Bryn Mawr College and he was vice director for public affairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a co-founder of the American Ballet and the School of American Ballet. He collected many paintings and sculptures, and donated the bulk of them to museums, especially the Museum of Modern Art.
| Edward Warburg | |
|---|---|
| Born | Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg June 5, 1908 White Plains, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 1992 Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Cause of death | heart failure |
| Residence | 730 Park Avenue, Park Avenue, Lenox Hill, Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Wilton, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | Middlesex School |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Philanthropist |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Warburg |
| Children | David Warburg Daphne Astor |
| Parent(s) | Felix M. Warburg Frieda Schiff |
| Relatives | Jacob Schiff (maternal grandfather) James Loeb (great-uncle) Aby Warburg (paternal uncle) |
Edward Warburg (1908-1992) was an American philanthropist and patron of the arts from New York City. He taught Modern Art at Bryn Mawr College and he was vice director for public affairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a co-founder of the American Ballet and the School of American Ballet. He collected many paintings and sculptures, and donated the bulk of them to museums, especially the Museum of Modern Art.
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With his Harvard friend Lincoln Kirstein, Vladmir Dimitriew, and Russian choreographer George Balanchine, Warburg was a co-founder of the School of American Ballet in 1934.[3] Two years later, in 1936, Warburg and Kirstein co-founded the American Ballet, a precursor to the New York City Ballet.[1][2] Warburg is credited with bringing George Balanchine to the United States. Warburg patronised Balanchine's early ballets in the United States.[2] He also patronised the first Stravinsky Festival at the Metropolitan Opera House, "commissioning the score for Jeu de Cartes."[2]
Warburg joined the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in 1933.[3] He served on the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1988 to 1992.[1]
Over the years, Warburg collected many paintings by Georgia O'Keefe and Edward Hopper, but also by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró.[1] He also collected sculptures by Ernst Barlach, Gaston Lachaise, Constantin Brâncuși and Alexander Milne Calder.[1][5] He donated many of his paintings and sculptures to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[1]
Additionally, Warburg donated to Jewish causes.[2] He served as the Chair of the Art division of the UJA-Federation of New York the 1930s.[3] He made charitable contributions to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Habima Theatre in Israel as early as the 1930s.[3] In a 1933 article published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, it was explained that he did not "view Palestine as a national homeland but as a university center in which the ideals and culture of the Jewish people may have an opportunity to flourish and spread throughout the whole world."[3]
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