Peggy Guggenheim Collection

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a collection of modern art in Venice. The collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal. The museum was opened in 1980.

History

Peggy Guggenheim collected from 1938 Modern Art and opened this year, the gallery Guggenheim Jeune in London. In 1939, she closed the gallery again, and the plan to create a museum of contemporary art failed.

In July 1941, Peggy Guggenheim fled with Max Ernst from Europe to New York. In the years 1942 to 1947 she led the avant-garde art gallery Art of This Century, which was at the same museum in Manhattan. After closing the gallery, she returned to Europe and moved to Venice. In 1948 she exhibited at the Biennale of their works of art in Venice. In 1949 it acquired the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal, an unfinished palace from the 18th century, the construction of which never went beyond the ground floor. In addition to their living rooms, the palace was even then already used as exhibition spaces. Peggy Guggenheim lived up to its end of life in Venice. She is buried alongside her dogs in the garden of the palace, which was later called the Nasher Sculpture Garden.

Beginning of the 60s of the last century was Peggy Guggenheim to the collecting activities. The reason was their aversion to Pop Art and the sharp rise in prices on the market for contemporary art. 1969 her collection at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was shown in New York. On this occasion, Peggy Guggenheim in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni and leave the collection after her death, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation decided. One condition was that the collection should remain in Venice.

Collection

In the museum of art, among others, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Arp to see. In addition to the permanent collection, special exhibitions. So for example:

• 2011: Ileana Sonnabend. An Italian Portrait