The exhibition " Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim " examines the crucial role played by Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen (1890-1967) as founder of the Guggenheim Museum New York and as an artist. Hilla Rebay
studied art in Munich, Berlíny Paris, his circle of friends of the time included Jean Arp, Rudolf Bauer, Juan Gris, Vasily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Ben Nicholson, Pablo Picasso, Hans Richter, Kurt Schwitters ...
When in 1927 the Solomon R. Guggenheim, which had one of the largest fortunes in the U.S., meets "the Baroness" Rebay, the art world changed forever. Guided by Kandinsky she discovers he met avant-garde artists who were exiled in the Paisy begins to be interested in the abstract universe. Guggenheim
auction his collection of ancient art. She convinces him to collect non-objective painting, which is termed as abstract art and invited him to help in the creation of what today represents one of the best collections of modern art in the world, Guggenheim Foundation and the Museum of nonobjective art (now Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York ).
Guggenheim Foundation Established in 1937, Rebay began to organize exhibitions from 2 years later and until his retirement shortly after the death of Solomon R. Guggenheim in 1959.
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