Together, the Guggenheim is more than the sum of its parts.
Who Were the Guggenheims?
Solomon R. Guggenheim and daughter Barbara Josephine Guggenheim Obre, sometime between 1915 and 1920.
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He married a fellow Swiss immigrant and became involved in mining businesses.
The Guggenheim children continued their family’s business interests while leading fascinating lives of their own.
One son, Benjamin Guggenheim, famously and tragically died on theTitanicshipwreck in 1912.
Solomon R. Guggenheim and daughter Barbara Josephine Guggenheim Obre, sometime between 1915 and 1920. (Photo:George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress)
Solomon was born in 1861 and educated in Switzerland.
He too pursued the family business of mining; He also founded the Yukon Gold Company in Alaska.
Solomon R. Guggenheim and Hilla von Rebay
The Guggenheim under construction in November 1957.
The Guggenheim under construction in November 1957. (Photo:Gottscho-Schleisner Collection/Library of Congress)
After 1919, he decided to fully devote his time to the practice.
In his lifetime, Guggenheim acquired 150 of Kandinsky’s works.
According to his namesake museum, Guggenheim said Everybody was telling me that this modern stuff was the bunk.
“Saint-Séverin No. 3.” by Robert Delaunay, 1909-10. Now held at the Guggenheim Museum. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons[Public domain])
I got to feel those pictures so deeply that I wanted them to live with me.
The Museum of Non-Objective Painting
Saint-Severin No.
- by Robert Delaunay, 1909-10.
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Now held at the Guggenheim Museum.
Sadly, neither Wright nor Solomon R. Guggenheim witnessed the new museum’s opening.
Wright passed earlier that year, while Guggenheim died in 1949.
The spiral interior of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, 2019. (Photo: Madeleine Muzdakis/My Modern Met)
In his honor, the museum was renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
The spiral interior of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, 2019.
Now held at the Guggenheim Museum.
“Landscape with Factory Chimney” by Wassily Kandinsky, 1910. Now held at the Guggenheim Museum. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons[Public domain])
The Guggenheim Foundation Today
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry in Bilbao, Spain.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain is an architectural wonder designed byFrank Gehryand opened in 1997.
More institutions are coming.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry in Bilbao, Spain. (Photo:Stock Photosfrom SANTI RODRIGUEZ/Shutterstock)
Explore theircollectionof over 1,700 artworks and be inspired by the best of modern art.
