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Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen    (American, 1890-1967)

 Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen - Centered (Mixed Media) h: 11.4 x w: 14.1 in / h: 29 x w: 35.8 cm
Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen
Centered 1945
 
 Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen - Sonderba (M88) (Paintings) h: 7 x w: 10.1 in / h: 17.8 x w: 25.7 cm
Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen
Sonderba (M88) 1950
 
 

Biography
1890 Born (Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen) in Strasbourg, France
1906 Studied at the Academie Julien under Rollais and Bouche
1910 Continued studies in Munich, Germany
1913 Moved to Berlin
1915 Met Jean Arp in Zurich
1917 "Galerie Dada", Berlin Germany (group exhibition)
"Galerie Der Sturm", Berlin Germany (group exhibition)
1927 Moved to the USA; became artistic advisor to Solomon R. Guggenheim; Served as the first director and curator of Guggenheim's Museum of Non-Objective Painting (renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952)
Befriended Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall
1937 Helped Solomon Guggenheim establish the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
1936 - 1939 Organized exhibitions of Guggenheim's collection in Charleston, South Carolina; Philadelphia, and Baltimore
1939 Museum Opened in New York with inaugural exhibition, "Art of Tomorrow"
1943 Rebay commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a permanent museum for the Guggenheim collection
1952 Resigned as director of the Guggenheim Museum; retained role of director emeritus
1967 Died on September 27th

Exhibitions
2005 Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (retrospective exhibition), traveled to: the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; the Schlossmuseum in Murnau, Germany; the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
1929 - 1939 Exhibited with Kandinsky at Rudolf Bauer's gallery in Berlin-Charlottenberg, Germany
1927 Exhibited collages and drawings at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts (Rebay was one of the few female abstract painters of her time)
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