About the Author

Dr. Karen Michels, art historian, studied in Bonn and Hamburg. Her dissertation was on Le Corbusier in 1987. Her academic work at the University of Hamburg history of art faculty concerned the reconstruction and supervision of the Warburg House. She has made lengthy research visits to Paris and the United States and taught at the universities of Jena, Halle, and Berlin (Humboldt) between 1998 and 2000. Her publications include 5 Minuten f�1/4r die Kunst (Knesebeck 2007), Aby Warburg: Im Bannkreis der Ideen (Beck 2007), Tagebuch der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Warburg (Akademie 2001), and Transplantierte Kunstwissenschaft (Akademie 1999).