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Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art

American, 1890-1967
A woman credited largely for the existence of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Hilla Rebay also was an accomplished artist in modernist styles that included collage and biogmorphic-linear oil paintings. She is remembered primarily for being the key person in first exposing the American public to avant-garde art and creating revolutionary museum environments for that art. To remind the public that Rebay was an artist in her own right, curators at the Guggenheim Museum held a retrospective of her work in the spring and summer of 2005. Hilla Rebay was born to minor nobility in Strasbourg, Alsace. Her father, a career army officer from Bavaria, and her mother encouraged her obvious childhood art talent. She studied locally and then enrolled in 1909 at the Academie Julian in Paris. There she was much influenced by avant-garde movements especially theosophist artists and writers led by Wassily Kandinsky. In 1910, she spent time in Munich where she was further exposed to modern art, and she returned to Paris in 1913, having exhibited work in Cologne and Munich. In Paris she studied at the Academie Julian. By 1914, she was exhibiting with the Secession Group in Munich, the Salon des Independants in Paris, and the November Gruppe in Berlin--all rebelling against prevalent realism and traditional teaching methods. In Berlin, she associated with many modernist artists including Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Marc Chagall. In 1917, she med Rudolph Bauer, a German painter in non-objective styles who became her long-time lover and in the future the cause of controversy because she was accused of devoting disproportionate exhibition space to him at the Guggenheim Museum. Hilla Rebay first visited the United States in 1927 and stayed for an extended time period, which included giving painting lessons to Louise Nevelson, seeking portrait commissions, designing posters and exhibiting her own work at venues including the Worcester Art Museum and a Manhattan gallery. Among her portrait commission subjects was Solomon Guggenheim, whose wealthy family had extensive western mining interests. Rebay had met Solomon and his wife Irene when they purchased two of her paintings at the Manhattan show. To that time, the couple were collectors of conventional art, but during the sittings, Hilla talked to him of what was going on in avant-garde art circles. She brought painters of leading-edge styles to meet Guggenheim and encouraged him to collect their art, which he did--filling his Plaza Hotel apartment. Rebay supervised the collection, and in 1937, she led the establishment of a Guggenheim foundation to build "The Museum of Non-Objective Art," in 1939. The main focus of the collection was works of the Dutch De Stijl Group that included Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, and of Bauhaus artists from Germany such as Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. During this time, Rebay was reaching out to many young non-objective American artists including Jackson Pollock and Rudolf Bauer.
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Three High Fashion Models in Avant-garde Dress - Cut  Paper Collage
Three High Fashion Models in Avant-garde Dress - Cut  Paper Collage

Three High Fashion Models in Avant-garde Dress - Cut Paper Collage

By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen

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Three High-Fashion figures adorned in flowing gowns are lined up in a row, facing the viewer. They have an Avant-garde complex design reminiscent of Gustav Klimt. The work is constru...

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1930s Feminist Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art

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"Catch a Flying Bunny"
"Catch a Flying Bunny"

"Catch a Flying Bunny"

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Located in Lambertville, NJ

Cut Paper Collage, Signed Lower Right. Hilla Rebay was an avant-garde artist who believed deeply in the power of intuition while creating art. She was the progenitor of The Museu...

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20th Century Modern Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art

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"Toccata"
"Toccata"

"Toccata"

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Cut Paper Collage, Signed LR Hilla Rebay was an avant-garde artist who believed deeply in the power of intuition while creating art. She was the progenitor of The Museum of Non-Obj...

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"Patinage"
"Patinage"

"Patinage"

By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen

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"Hold On"
"Hold On"

"Hold On"

By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen

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"La Surprise"
"La Surprise"

"La Surprise"

By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen

Located in Lambertville, NJ

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Cat Friends Portrait, Collage on Paper - Guggenheim Museum Founder
Cat Friends Portrait, Collage on Paper - Guggenheim Museum Founder

Cat Friends Portrait, Collage on Paper - Guggenheim Museum Founder

By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen

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A portrait of two cats is deftly assembled by trailblazing modernist Hilla Rebay. The work is signed and titled lower left. 'Muschi et Antonio v. Rebay - Rome'. Titled to verso ‘Musc...

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"Allow Me"
"Allow Me"

"Allow Me"

By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Cut Paper Collage, Signed Lower Right Hilla Rebay was an avant-garde artist who believed deeply in the power of intuition while creating art. She was the progenitor of The Museum...

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