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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is formed for the “promotion and encouragement and education in art and the enlightenment of the public.” Chartered by the Board of Regents of New York State, the Foundation is endowed to operate one or more museums.
Solomon Guggenheim is elected the first President of the Foundation, and Rebay is appointed its Curator.
The name of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting is changed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to designate it as a memorial to its founder, who died in 1949, and to signify a shift toward a broader view of modern and contemporary art.
www.guggenheim-venice.it /inglese/museum/fondazione.html   (1743 words)

  
  Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
For example, the Solomon R. Guggenheim has shown exhibitions of Giorgio Armani[?] suits[?] and motorcycles; the latter exhibition was later moved to semi-permanent display at the Guggenheim Las Vegas.
Beginning with the Solomon R. Guggenheim building (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), and continuing with the Guggenheim Bilbao (designed by Frank Gehry) and the Guggenheim Las Vegas (designed by Rem Koolhaas), the Guggenheim Foundation developed a reputation for hiring major architects and building bold designs.
The first Guggenheim museum was actually called the "Museum of Non-Objective Painting", and resided at an automobile showroom at East 54th St., in midtown Manhattan.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/so/Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Foundation   (416 words)

  
 Guggenheim Family Page
John Simon Guggenheim was the son of Simon Guggenheim, one of seven brothers whose father Meyer Guggenheim came to Philadelphia from Switzerland in 1848.
Guggenheim Museum, which is supported by Solomon's foundation, now chaired by his grandson Peter Lawson-Johnson.
Roger Straus, Jr., a grandnephew of Simon Guggenheim, was until his recent demise an emeritus member of the Foundation's Board of Trustees and represented the Foundation's last connection with the wider family of its founders.
www.gf.org /gugg_fam.html   (341 words)

  
 IOnVegas art | Hermitage-Guggenheim Museum | Press Release | October 20, 2000
The Las Vegas co-operation between the Hermitage and the Guggenheim is one of the first concrete projects to result from a larger, long-term collaboration agreement between the Hermitage and the Guggenheim that was signed and announced this past June in St. Petersburg.
Several of the Guggenheim's contributions to the exhibition are works from the Thannhauser Collection, an extensive suite of early Modern masterpieces donated to the museum by the German- born dealer and collector Justin K. Thannhauser (1892-1976) and his wife Hilde.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Established in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation operates an international network of museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Guggenheim Museum SoHo in New York; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; and the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.
www.ionvegas.com /artvengug1.htm   (1354 words)

  
 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - Virtual NYC Tour
Founded in 1937, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is the best-known of several museums founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is often called simply The Guggenheim.
Solomon R. Guggenheim did not really know who to choose as architect for the museum, and asked his friend Baroness Hilla von Rebay to pick someone.
In October 2005, Lisa Dennison was appointed director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
www.virtualnyctour.com /guide/museumDetail21.htm   (545 words)

  
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim, planned by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), broke away from the dicates of the trends of modern architectural movements and represented the most poetically linked of all his works.
Solomon Guggenheim is elected the first President of the Foundation, and Rebay is appointed its Curator.
The name of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting is changed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to designate it as a memorial to its founder, who died in 1949, and to signify a shift toward a broader view of modern and contemporary art.
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 museumnetwork.com - Guggenheim and the State Hermitage Museum Form Partnership   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Two vastly different, culturally renowned institutions--the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia--have announced a partnership of unprecedented magnitude in the museum industry.
According to Thomas Krens, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the State Hermitage "is one of the greatest museums in the entire world.
The combined Guggenheim collections range from the late-19th century to the present." As a result, the combined collections of the two museums allow for a more comprehensive presentation of art over a much greater portion of the globe.
www.museumnetwork.com /features/07_20_highlight_guggenheim.asp   (429 words)

  
 ITALIA - Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Venice
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a museum of 20th century avant-garde art displaying masterpieces collected by the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) between 1938 and 1947 in London, Paris and New York, and then brought to Venice for the first time for the 1948 Venice Biennale.
In the same year, Peggy Guggenheim bought Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an unfinished Grand Canal palace attributed to the architect Lorenzo Boschetti (1749), where she lived for 30 years and where from 1951 she opened her house as a museum.
In 1976 she left her palazzo and collection to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which now administers it together with the other Guggenheim museums in New York, Bilbao, and Berlin.
www.italiantourism.com /guggen.html   (289 words)

  
 Historia
The choice of Bilbao as the venue for one of the Guggenheim European centers is best understood in the context of the initiatives implemented by the Basque authorities as a contribution to the process of revitalizing the Basque Country's recession-plagued economic structure.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is the result of a unique process of collaboration, based largely on the complementary nature of their resources, between the Basque authorities and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
The ambitious plan for bringing the Guggenheim Museum to Bilbao got under way in February 1991, when high-ranking representatives of the Basque authorities contacted the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation with a proposal for the latter to take part in the moves to revitalize Bilbao in particular and the Basque Country in general.
www.guggenheim-bilbao.es /ingles/historia/contenido.htm   (577 words)

  
 GUGGENHEIM, Solomon R(obert)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the 1920s he began to collect abstract art, and in 1937 he established the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to promote public understanding of modern art.
In 1939 the foundation opened the Museum of Non-Objective Art, later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York City.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City.
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 The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage News
The primary goal of the newly established foundation is to provide financial support and implement joint projects of the Hermitage and Guggenheim in the spheres of art, architecture, design and education.
Cooperation of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the State Hermitage is based on the Long-term Collaboration Agreement signed by the museums in June 2000.
In 2002 Potanin was elected to the Trusteeship Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/11/b2003/hm11_1_85.html   (564 words)

  
 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Centre Pompidou and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation propose development of a new museum in Hong Kong.(Brief Article)
San Patrignano, Innovative Drug Rehab Center, to be Feted at Gala Dinner at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 2nd.
Frankenthaler at the Guggenheim.(Helen Frankenthaler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York)
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-SolomonR.html   (498 words)

  
 THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION, RESPONDENT, v. MRS. JULES LUBELL, APPELLANT. (THIRD & FOURTH-PARTY ACTIONS.)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which operates the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, is seeking to recover a Chagall gouache worth an estimated $200,000.
The Guggenheim believes that the gouache was stolen from its premises by a mailroom employee sometime in the late 1960s.
The person to whom the dealer showed the transparency had previously worked at the Guggenheim and recognized the gouache as a piece that was missing from the museum.
www.law.cornell.edu /nyctap/I91_0018.htm   (2364 words)

  
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SOLOMON R. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was founded in 1937 to realize four basic objectives: the collection, preservation, interpretation, and presentation of objects of twentieth-century visual culture.
These are the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Guggenheim Museum SoHo in New York; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, and most recently in Las Vegas, the Hermitage Guggenheim Museum, and the Guggenheim Las Vegas.
Opened in 1997, the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin was jointly established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Deutsche Bank in the heart of one of Europe’s most dynamic historic cities.
www.khm.at /staticE/page1947.html   (1156 words)

  
 Image Archive - Guggenheim Museum - Image Archive
The Guggenheim's Photography department manages an Image Archive that is available to the public for educational and editorial purposes.
For projects in which the Guggenheim agrees to create new photography, there will be additional charges for time and expenses; these will be estimated and agreed to in advance.
The name Guggenheim and the interior and exterior images of the Guggenheim Museum are registered trademarks of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
www.guggenheim.org /image_archive   (773 words)

  
 The Korea Times : International Brand Value Crucial for Museum Success   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The result is an enormous increase in audiences to the museum, according to Thomas Krens, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
He explained that when Guggenheim first opened in Bilbao, Spain, it was amidst the conflict because the Basque entity has always history of separatism and the terrorist organizations were very active at that time.
Founded in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was created by Solomon R. Guggenheim, scion of a wealthy American family in order to preserve his private collection of European and American paintings and make it available to the public.
times.hankooki.com /lpage/culture/200611/kt2006110118095911690.htm   (810 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Museums of Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a modern and contemporary art museum located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.
It is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Part of the building is crossed by a highway bridge, and a large portion of the structure is sheathed in paper-thin titanium panels.
www.magicaljourneys.com /Spain/spain-interest-northern-guggenheim.html   (507 words)

  
 Guggenheim's road to Rio - Front Page - Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in Rio de Janeiro Art in America - Find ...
In late January, the trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation approved proceeding with plans for the proposed new Guggenheim branch in Rio de Janeiro, subject to review of the contract, which was still not finalized at this writing.
According to Guggenheim spokesperson Betsy Ennis, "the financial terms are still in negotiation," including the amount to be paid by Rio for the Guggenheim's "brand." The Brazilian press has repeatedly put that amount at $20 million.
Under negotiation, she said, is the amount of future rent to be paid by the Guggenheim Hermitage to the Venetian, which bankrolled both facilities' construction and start-up costs.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_3_91/ai_98541202   (378 words)

  
 Deutsche Guggenheim
Deutsche Guggenheim is situated on Unter den Linden in the old and new centre of Berlin.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, established in 1937, is based on the private collection of Solomon R. Guggenheim with its focus on "non-objective" art.
The site in Germany establishes a special connection to the historical roots of the Guggenheim Foundation, inasmuch as the Guggenheim family originally came from Germany and Hilla Rebay, the first director of the Guggenheim Museum, emigrated to New York from what was at that time Prussia.
www.deutsche-bank-kunst.com /guggenheim/e   (551 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - Press Office - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation - Fact Sheet
It was created by Solomon R. Guggenheim, scion of a wealthy American family, in order to preserve his private collection of European and American abstract (or non-objective) paintings and make it available to the public.
As the chief artistic officer of the Guggenheim Foundation, Mr.
Krens, the Foundation has made such major acquisitions as the Panza Collection of Minimalist and Conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, the finest collection of vintage photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, and the Bohen Collection of multimedia art.
www.guggenheim.org /press_releases/release_121.html   (852 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
The Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York was the first to be built, and is sometimes called simply "the Guggenheim".
Beginning with the Solomon R. Guggenheim building (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), and continuing with the Guggenheim Bilbao (designed by Frank Gehry) and the Guggenheim Las Vegas (designed by Rem Koolhaas), the Guggenheim Foundation developed a reputation for hiring major architects and building bold designs.
The first Guggenheim museum was actually called the "Museum of Non-Objective Painting", and resided at an automobile showroom at East 54th St., in midtown Manhattan.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/s/o/Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Foundation.html   (399 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - Exhibitions - Solomon's Gift
Solomon R. Guggenheim, with the guidance of the artist Hilla Rebay, was a champion of a particular strand of abstraction, known as non-objective art, which had no ties to the observable world and aspired to spiritual and utopian goals.
Today the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation includes approximately 620 artworks that were gifted to the museum by Solomon between 1937 (the year of the formation of the foundation) and 1949, or purchased by the foundation during those years.
In order to formally honor his legacy, and in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the creation of the foundation, the Guggenheim is assigning a special credit line to these works, designating them as part of the Founding Collection.
www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/solomonsgift   (278 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - History
1937 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is formed for the "promotion and encouragement and education in art and the enlightenment of the public." Chartered by the Board of Regents of New York State, the Foundation is endowed to operate one or more museums.
Thomas M. Messer is appointed Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in addition to his role overseeing the New York museum, and he supervises a major effort to conserve and document the Venice holdings.
The objectives of the alliance are to expand international cultural relations; to make each museum's collections accessible to broader audiences; to pursue collection sharing strategies that complement each institution's holdings; to implement joint exhibition, publishing, educational, and retail initiatives; and to facilitate each institution's long-term goals.
www.guggenheim.org /history.html   (1653 words)

  
 Deutsche Guggenheim
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, established in 1937, is based on the private collection of Solomon R. Guggenheim with its focus on "non-objective" art.
The site in Germany establishes a special connection to the historical roots of the Guggenheim Foundation, inasmuch as the Guggenheim family originally came from Germany and Hilla Rebay, the first director of the Guggenheim Museum, emigrated to New York from what was at that time Prussia.
Ever since its foundation in 1870, the Deutsche Bank has considered its cultural commitment to be an essential part of its commercial and social responsibility.
www.deutsche-guggenheim.de /e   (549 words)

  
 Guggenheim Hermitage Museum - Partners
The Guggenheim Museum began with the vision of Solomon R. Guggenheim, heir to an American mining fortune and an enthusiastic patron of the arts.
In 1929, Guggenheim enlisted the guidance of German baroness Hilla Rebay, an advocate of innovative and experimental art, and was able to amass a major collection of contemporary European painting.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation now incorporates the important collections of several discerning patrons, including the 20th-century paintings and sculpture owned by Peggy Guggenheim, niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim; the Justin K. Thannhauser collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and School of Paris masterpieces; and Giuseppe Panza di Biumo's outstanding group of Minimal and Conceptual artworks.
www.guggenheimlasvegas.org /partners_gugg.html   (279 words)

  
 Kunsthistorisches Museum, State Hermitage Museum, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Sign Tri-Lateral Agreement in ...
Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, said: It is a great privilege for the Guggenheim Foundation to form a collaborative relationship with the Kunsthistorsches Museum and the State Hermitage Museum.
Add to that the Guggenheim's strong representation of postwar modern and contemporary art collections, coupled with the Guggenheim's active special exhibition programs, and the result is an intercultural network with access to millions that can engage in a new discourse across borders.
The Foundation's mission is to collect, preserve, present, and interpret modern and contemporary art and culture.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2001/01/23/27978.html   (1178 words)

  
 Solomon Robert Guggenheim — Infoplease.com
Guggenheim - Guggenheim Guggenheim, family of American industrialists and philanthropists.
Meyer Guggenheim - Meyer Guggenheim industrialist, philanthropist Born: 2/1/1828 Birthplace: Langnau, Switzerland...
Robert Delaunay at the Guggenheim.(Robert Delaunay, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York)
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