Art of Tomorrow - Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim

Without Hilla Rebay, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum would probably never have existed. Against all opposition, Hilla Rebay, a founder and the first director of the Guggenheim, dedicated herself decisively and persuasively to the recognition of non-objective painting and, together with Frank Lloyd Wright, planned what is probably the world's best-known museum building, in New York City. Less well known to the public, however, is Hilla Rebay the artist, who, over the course of her passionate life, created an extensive body of paintings, collages and drawings. Born in Strasbourg in 1890, Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen emigrated in the late 1920s to the US, where she later established a comprehensive art collection for Solomon R. Guggenheim. An avante-garde artist herself and one of the first non-objective painters in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, Hilla Rebay supported such European artists as Kandinsky, Leger, Chagall, Mondrian, and Klee, as well as the German painter Rudolf Bauer, with whom she had a personal relationship. The exhibition that this book accompanies is the first extensive retrospective of her own work. The presentation, which includes works by artists she supported, offers an opportunity to rediscover a nearly forgotten, but leading artistic figure, Hilla Rebay...