Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is a non-profit organization that was from the U.S. patron of the arts Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861-1949) and the German painter Hilla Rebay (1890-1967) in 1937 donated. Headquarters of the Foundation is New York City.

  • 2.2.2 Guggenheim Hermitage in Las Vegas
  • 2.2.3 German Guggenheim in Berlin

The Collection

The collection was built up by Hilla Rebay and founded in 1937 by industrialist and art collector Solomon R. Guggenheim as a foundation. The concept of the collection developed Hilla Rebay in cooperation with Wassily Kandinsky, Rudolf Bauer and Otto Nebel as the center of abstract art.

The collection from the collection of the Guggenheim has been extended through donations and acquisitions from other collections and is today one of the most important collections of classic modern art of the late 19th and early 20th century. Here you will find important works by Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Calder, Edgar Degas, Joseph Beuys, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Richard Serra, Piet Mondrian, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Joan Miro and many others.

It is based essentially on the subjective selection of great art collector. Among the collections that found a new home in the Guggenheim Museum, a part of the collection of Hilda and Justin Thannhauser with works of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and the early modern period, sculptures and paintings of the historical avant-garde from the collection of Katherine Dreier, the collection Karl renal village with works of German Expressionism, Peggy Guggenheim's collection of Surrealist and abstract art or collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art of Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo.

Museums

Currently operated museums

The Foundation currently operates four Guggenheim museums.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York is the oldest of the Guggenheim Museums, and was founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non - Objective Painting in 1952 and renamed. The still used today, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in cooperation with Hilla Rebay and built 1956-1959. It is considered one of the most important buildings designed by Wright, who died before the opening of the museum. The art works will be presented on a ramp that runs spirally through the building. This represented a break with the normal linear space concepts of museums dar. also been criticized, the architecture put the pictures in the shade. In 1992 the museum was restored and added to a tower that was already provided in Wright's plans. Thus, the exhibition area of the museum doubled.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice was founded in 1951, but it is only since 1976 part of belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation museums. The museum building is the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, built in 1798, which was designed by Lorenzo Boschetti. The palace was never completed. 1949 Peggy Guggenheim bought the building and lived there until her death. Even during which some of the rooms and the associated public park were available. After her death the palace was completely renovated and converted into a museum.

Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

The Museo Guggenheim Bilbao in Bilbao opened in October 1997. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation proposed the Basque authorities, who wanted to revive cultural Bilbao, in 1981 the construction of a Guggenheim museum before. From the international competition for the design of the museum building by the architect Frank O. Gehry emerged as the winner. The resulting building combines metal and stone and is considered one of the most important buildings of the 20th century and is one of the landmarks of Bilbao. The museum has a total area of ​​24,000 square meters. The exhibition area is 11,000 square meters.

Former museums

The Guggenheim SoHo in New York's SoHo existierte 1992-2002. On the artist and art gallery district of Manhattan, the branch was opened simultaneously with the extension of the parent company. The museum mainly exhibitions of contemporary art were shown. The architect Arata Isozaki designed the futuristic museum, which was located in a Cast- Iron - 19th century, directly on Broadway. After the closure of the building now houses a " flagship store " of the luxury brand Prada.

Guggenheim Hermitage in Las Vegas

The Guggenheim Hermitage Hotel in the Venetian in Las Vegas was opened in 2000. For some time there was a close collaboration with the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, which were expanded with the establishment of the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas. It was located in the Venetian casino complex and was designed by Rem Koolhaas. The operation of the museum was taken over in 2007 by the hotel, where it was further recorded with works from the collection of the Guggenheim Foundation. The Guggenheim Hermitage concluded on 11 May 2008, which observers both in connection with the resignation of the director Thomas Krens - set in February of this year as with a lack of commitment by the leadership in New York - who was largely responsible for the expansion of the Guggenheim Foundation. According to a statement by Elizabeth Herridge, the director of the Guggenheim Hermitage, since its opening more than one million guests visited the ten exhibitions shown there.

German Guggenheim in Berlin

The German Guggenheim in Berlin was opened in November 1997 in cooperation with Deutsche Bank. The museum is housed in the building of the Berlin representation of Deutsche Bank Unter den Linden. There was only 510 square meters, designed by the American architect Richard Gluckman gallery, are shown in temporary exhibitions. Curated these are from the German Bank Collection. The German Guggenheim was closed at the end of 2012.

Planned Museums

During the expansion of the Guggenheim Foundation plans for other Guggenheim museums were put forward, including possible offshoot in Guadalajara, Hong Kong, Singapore and Rio de Janeiro, which should be designed by renowned architects such as Jean Nouvel and Norman Foster. While these plans were not pursued, is to be built a building designed by Frank Gehry Museum in Abu Dhabi. The construction of the project was to November 2010, operated by the former director of the Guggenheim Foundation Thomas Krens. In April 2008, a Architekturenfwurf by Zaha Hadid was presented for a museum in Vilnius; a new museum - like the Guggenheim Hermitage in Las Vegas - in turn are recorded together with the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

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