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Kandinsky and Expressionist Painting before World War I
-- Arts - Painting, Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Kandinsky, an artist who has been closely linked to the history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and to whom this gallery is dedicated, became a leading theoretician on chromatic symbolism after arriving in Munich from his native Russia at the turn of the century. Kandinsky’s color theories, as outlined in his treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911), were echoed by Franz Marc and Alexej Jawlensky, among others. Marc first met Kandinsky and Jawlensky when he joined the New Artists’ Association of Munich (Neue Künstlervereinigung München or NKVM) in 1911. At this time, Marc was exclusively depicting animals in nature and endowing his colors with expressive value and symbolic meaning in a manner similar to Kandinsky in his Bavarian landscapes. Meanwhile, Matisse’s 1910 Munich exhibition had left a strong impression on both Jawlensky and Kandinsky. The two shared an affinity for Matisse’s brilliant canvases and those of the other Fauves—works Kandinsky had had the opportunity to observe during his visit to Paris in 1906–7.
In 1911, Kandinsky and Marc formed The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) group along with Jawlensky, Paul Klee, and other members of the German avant-garde. The premier exhibition of this group took place that December at Heinrich Thannhauser’s Moderne Galerie and included Marc’s monumental Yellow Cow (Gelbe Kuh) (1911). Two months after the first showing, the Berlin Die Brücke (The Bridge) group, led by Kirchner, was invited to participate in a second Blue Rider exhibition. Kirchner and the other members of Die Brücke frequently employed dissonant color patterns and angular stylizations to increase the intensity of their paintings. Furthermore, Marc Chagall, who had been working in Paris beginning in 1910, received his first solo show in 1914 at Herwarth Walden’s Der Sturm gallery in Berlin, thus forming a link with both Die Brücke and Blue Rider artists and exposing them to his imaginative, colorful works.
The connections among these different artists were severed with the 1914 outbreak of World War I. Nonetheless, the postwar period saw the reunion of Kandinsky, Klee, and Jawlensky, who together with Lyonel Feininger, formed the Blue Four group in the United States. It was then that these artists were able to pursue their color theories with renewed vigor.
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Thannhauser Collection
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Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976) was the son of art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser (1859–1935), who founded the Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. From an early age, Thannhauser worked alongside his father in the flourishing gallery and helped to build an impressive and versatile exhibition program that included the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, the Italian Futurists, and regularly featured contemporary German artists. The Moderne Galerie presented the premier exhibitions of the New Artists’ Association of Munich (Neue Künstlervereinigung München) and The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), both of which included Vasily Kandinsky, in 1901 and 1911, respectively. Kandinsky later described the gallery’s rooms as “perhaps the most beautiful exhibition spaces in all of Munich.” The Moderne Galerie also mounted the first major Pablo Picasso retrospective in 1913, thus initiating the close relationship between Justin K. Thannhauser and Picasso that lasted until the artist’s death in 1973.
An ambitious businessman, Thannhauser opened a second gallery in Lucerne in 1919 with his cousin Siegfried Rosengart (1894–1985). Eight years later, the highly successful Galleries Thannhauser—as the Munich and Lucerne branches were collectively called—tested the waters in Berlin with a major special exhibition before permanently relocating its Munich gallery to this thriving art center. Business operations were nonetheless hindered throughout the next decade due to increasing anti-Semitism in Germany and a National Socialist (Nazi) government bent on purging the “degenerate art” of the avant-garde. The Galleries Thannhauser officially closed in 1937, shortly after Thannhauser and his family immigrated to Paris. Thannhauser eventually settled in New York in 1940 and, together with his second wife, Hilde (1919–1991), established himself as a private art dealer.
The Thannhausers’ commitment to promoting artistic progress paralleled the vision of Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861–1949). In appreciation of this shared spirit, and in the memory of his first wife and two sons—who might have continued in the family’s art trade had they not died at tragically young ages—Thannhauser gave a significant portion of his art collection, including over 30 works by Picasso, to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1963. From 1965 until Thannhauser’s death in 1976 (when his collection formally entered the Guggenheim’s holdings), the Thannhauser Collection was on long-term loan to the museum. A bequest of 10 additional works received after Hilde Thannhauser’s death in 1991 enhanced the legacy of this family of important art dealers.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum holds approximately 600 artworks that were gifted to the museum by Solomon Guggenheim between 1937 (the year of the formation of the foundation) and 1949, or purchased by the foundation during those years. In 2007, to formally honor Solomon’s legacy, and in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the creation of the foundation, the Guggenheim assigned a special credit line to these works, designating them as part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection
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The Panza Collection
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In 1991 and 1992, the Guggenheim acquired, through purchase and gift, over 350 works of Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, and Conceptual art from the renowned collection of Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo and his wife, Giovanna. Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s most important holdings of art of the 1960s and 1970s, the Panza Collection gave the Guggenheim depth and quality in its postwar holdings to match the strength of its prewar collection. Its acquisition may be seen as an extension of the Guggenheim’s founding mission to collect and promote abstract art. At the same time it looked forward, allowing the museum to represent the most immediate historical roots of today’s expanded and richly pluralistic art field
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Karl Nierendorf Estate
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In 1948 the Guggenheim Foundation purchased the entire estate of New York art dealer Karl Nierendorf (1889–1947). The acquisition of the estate of Karl Nierendorf expanded the breadth of the Guggenheim collection through the addition of important German and Austrian Expressionist works, such as Oskar Kokoschka’s Knight Errant (1915), and Surrealist paintings such as Joan Miró’s Personage (1925). It also ushered in a large concentration of works by Paul Klee—over 50 paintings and works on paper, including Red Balloon (1922)—and several early paintings by Adolph Gottlieb, among the first works by a member of the nascent school of Abstract Expressionism to enter the Guggenheim’s collection.
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The Katherine S. Dreier Bequest
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Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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In 1953 the Guggenheim Foundation received a small but important bequest by one of 20th-century art’s most influential figures, Katherine S. Dreier (1877–1952), who, along with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, had founded the Société Anonyme. Most important among the 28 works donated by the estate were Brancusi’s Little French Girl (1914–18), an Archipenko bronze (1919), a Calder standing mobile (1935), an untitled Juan Gris still life (1916), and three collages dating from 1919 to 1921 by the German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters.
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The Hilla Rebay Collection
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Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Through her perpetual contact with artists over the course of her lifetime, Hilla Rebay, first director and curator of Guggenheim’s Museum of Non-Objective Painting—which would be renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952—amassed her own significant art collection. Part of her estate, which included works by Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, and Kurt Schwitters, was given to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum four years after Rebay’s death in 1967.
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The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Gift
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Photography
Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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In 1992 the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation named the Guggenheim Foundation the recipient of approximately 200 of Mapplethorpe’s finest photographs and unique objects. Realized in several stages between 1993 and 1998, the gift made the Guggenheim the most comprehensive public repository of this important American artist’s work. The selection spans every period and area of Mapplethorpe’s work, from his early Polaroids, collages, and mixed-media constructions to his iconic, classicizing photographs of male and female nudes, flowers, and statuary; his portraits of artists, celebrities, and acquaintances; and his more explicit depictions of the S&M underground. Over 20 of the artist’s best-known self-portraits are represented, from a series of 1972 Polaroids to his haunting Self-Portrait (1988), taken a year before his tragically premature death from AIDS in 1989.
The gift, which included a major grant, inaugurated the Guggenheim’s photography collection and exhibition program. Coming in the early 1990s, at a time when photography had already begun to assume the central role it occupies today in contemporary art practice, this new direction in the collection allowed the Guggenheim to maintain a leading role in defining and preserving the most important art of the present.
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The Bohen Foundation Gift
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Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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In 2001, the Bohen Foundation, a private charitable organization that commissions new works of art with an emphasis on film, video, and new media, gave the Guggenheim its holdings of some 275 works by 45 artists, immeasurably expanding the museum’s collection of contemporary art. Ranging from important photographic works by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Sophie Calle to room-sized installations incorporating large-scale video installations by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Pierre Huyghe, and Willie Doherty, the collection represents a vital and dynamic cross section of art at the turn of the millennium
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Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Toress & Roni Horn
Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Paired, Gold represents the aesthetic dialogue between Gonzalez-Torres and Horn as embodied in an exchange of gold, a reciprocal gift between the two artists that resonates with the poetry of their respective projects. In 1990 Gonzalez-Torres visited Horn's solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, where he first encountered Forms from the Gold Field (1980–82), in which Horn compressed two pounds of pure gold into a luminous rectangular mat. After meeting Horn three years later, Gonzalez-Torres received a square of gold foil in the mail from her as a symbol of their new friendship and shared sensibilities. He was so inspired by the generosity of her gesture and the expansiveness of her subtle work that he fashioned his own "gold field" in her honor: "Untitled" (Placebo – Landscape – for Roni) (1993), an endlessly replaceable candy spill of gold cellophane–wrapped sweets.
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