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Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Biography
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1890 |
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Born (Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen) in Strasbourg, France
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1906 |
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Studied at the Academie Julien under Rollais and Bouche
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1910 |
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Continued studies in Munich, Germany
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1915 |
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Met Jean Arp in Zurich
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1917 |
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"Galerie Dada", Berlin Germany (group exhibition)
"Galerie Der Sturm", Berlin Germany (group exhibition)
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1927 |
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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
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1937 |
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Helped Solomon Guggenheim establish the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
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1936 - 1939 |
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Organized exhibitions of Guggenheim's collection in Charleston, South Carolina; Philadelphia, and Baltimore
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1939 |
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Museum Opened in New York with inaugural exhibition, "Art of Tomorrow"
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1943 |
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Rebay commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a permanent museum for the Guggenheim collection
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1952 |
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Resigned as director of the Guggenheim Museum; retained role of director emeritus
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1967 |
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Died on September 27th
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2005
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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
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1929 - 1939
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Exhibited with Kandinsky at Rudolf Bauer's gallery in Berlin-Charlottenberg, Germany
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1927
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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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