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It is the permanent home of an ever-growing collection of Impressionists, Modern Art, Post-Impressionists, as well as specialty exhibitions throughout the year. Every year, the Guggenheim Museum is visited by more than a million connoisseurs and curious tourists. It hosts some of the most popular art exhibitions in the United States.
The museum was formed by the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation. In 1939 it was already known as the "museum of non-objective painting". The collection was managed at that time by the artist Hille von Rebay. The museum received its name after the death of its founder, in 1952. In 1959, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum moved from rented space to the current building.
The collection has grown organically over a decade, and is based on significant private collections, starting with the amassed collection of Solomon Guggenheim, who shared the accumulated paintings with a sister museum in Bilbao (Spain), as well as in other parts of our planet.
Solomon Robert Guggenheim is a member of a wealthy Jewish American family. In 1848, his father emigrated to the United States from Switzerland to set up an industrial business in Pennsylvania, mining copper, silver, and lead. Business went uphill, metallurgical plants were built, and with them the capital of the Guggenheim family increased.
Solomon was constantly fond of works of art and, since the 1890s, has been collecting old paintings. In 1926, he met the German-born artist Hille von Rebay. It is she who introduces Solomon to European avant-garde art, in particular abstract art. Since then, Solomon has completely changed the collection of the collection, referring to the famous works of Kandinsky and other modern masters of the brush.
Guggenheim began showing his collection to the public in his apartment at the Plaza Hotel. As the collection grew, he created the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation in 1937. The purpose of the foundation is to promote the recognition of contemporary art.
Museum of non-objective painting
The "Museum of Non-Objective Painting", under the direction of Rebay, in downtown Manhattan was opened in 1939. By the early 1940s, such a large collection of avant-garde paintings had accumulated that there was a need for a permanent building. In 1943, Rebay and Guggenheim wrote to Frank Lloyd Wright asking for help in creating a building to house the collection.
View of "Maurizio Cattelan: Everything" exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum (NAParish/flickr.com)
Wright has already become a well-known architect, erecting buildings as "organic architecture". His buildings were unusual and very functional. At that time he was very fashionable and modern, perhaps that is why he was chosen to organize the construction. Many visit Wright's buildings with wonder and admiration, especially the famous Falling House, which has become a popular museum in Pennsylvania.
Frank Wright accepted the opportunity from the Guggenheim to experiment with his organic style in an urban setting. It took him almost 16 years, over 700 sketches and six sets of blueprints to create the museum. And only in 1959 the building was commissioned.
The location of the Guggenheim Museum was not chosen by chance. Together with the architect Wright, Guggenheim viewed various sites in the Bronx and Manhattan overlooking the river. However, the collector felt that the proximity of Central Park would provide relief from the noise of New York, endless traffic jams and asphalt.
Even before its opening, the design of the museum was criticized. Some felt that the building would outshine the exhibits featured in the gallery. But the architect wrote that the building “on the contrary, creates a feeling of the infinity of painting, a beautiful symphony, that art is moving forward…”
On October 21, 1959, ten years after the death of the Guggenheim collector and six months after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum opened its doors to art lovers for the first time. The building has gained wide popularity and recognition, the Guggenheim Museum has inspired many modern architects.
The museum itself is a work of art. An unusual cylindrical structure, much wider at the top than at the bottom, according to the author's idea, is referred to as the "Temple of the Spirit". A unique ramp gallery extends from ground level in a long and continuous spiral along the outer edges of the building, ending at the ceiling. The open rotunda offers visitors a unique opportunity to see several works at the same time and even at different levels. The viewer is given the opportunity to go upstairs in an elevator, and then slowly descend in a spiral and enjoy the works of art.
Over time, it became necessary to expand and reconstruct the building. Significant renovations were carried out from 2005 to 2008, with state-of-the-art equipment, echo technology and lighting installed.
Following the completion of extensive renovations, on September 22, 2008, the Guggenheim Museum celebrated the opening of the renovated building, which was attended by famous contemporary artists, and 2 weeks later it was given the status of a National Historic Landmark.
Collections of the great masters of the brush
During her leadership, Hille contributed to the collection of works by such masters as Rudolf Bauer, Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Modeliani and Pablo Picasso.
In 1948, the collection was greatly expanded through the purchase of real estate by art dealer Karl Nierendorf, in particular German Expressionist paintings. By this time, the foundation's collection included a wide range of paintings by established surrealists and expressionists, including paintings by Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka and Joan Miro.
After the death of Solomon Guggenheim in 1949, members of his family, who are the board of directors of the foundation, were constantly dissatisfied with the work of Rebay. But most likely it was a personal and philosophical disagreement with the artist - the director of the museum. In 1952, Rebay resigned, but nevertheless left part of her personal collection at the Foundation of her own free will. These were the famous works of Kandinsky, Calder, Albert Gleizes, Klee, Kurt Schwitters and Mondrian. In the same year, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting was renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
In 1952 a new director was appointed, James Johnson Sweeney. Thanks to him, the fund was replenished with collections of modernist avant-garde sculptors Constantin Brancusi, Jozsef Csaky, Jean Arp, Calder, Alberto Giacometti, David Smith and many others.
Thanks to the good relationship between Rebay and the artist-collector Katherine Dreyer, the latter donated several valuable works to the Guggenheim Gallery. The collection was replenished by Brancusi and Juan Gris, sculpture by Alexander Archipenko, Duchamp, Mondrian, and Calder.
Exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum (Kent Wang / flickr.com)
In 1961, Thomas M. Messer was appointed head of the museum, who held this post for a record 27 years. During its work, the Guggenheim Museum has held several outstanding exhibitions of Kandinsky, presented many private collections of avant-garde art, including the Russian avant-garde collector Georgy Costakis.
Over time, the foundation acquired paintings by contemporary artists Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Koonning and Jackson Pollock. Impressionist and post-impressionist artists were not ignored. The gallery contains artistic masterpieces by Paul Cezanne, 32 works by Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Pissarro and Van Gogh.
From 1988 to 2008, the museum was headed by Thomas Krenz, who quickly expanded the museum's sculpture and painting fund, including photography. In 1992, the museum donated 200 photographs of the famous homoerotic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, various photographs of which are valued in the tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In addition, some of the most popular exhibitions organized by Tomas Krenz are "Africa: The Art of the Continent" (1996), "China: 5000 Years" (1998), "Brazil: Body and Soul" (2001) and " Aztec Empire (2004)
In 2001, the Art Education Center was opened on the basis of the museum.
From 2008 to the present, the museum has been led by the fifth director, Richard Armstrong. In addition to the permanent collections, the fund is constantly growing.
The museum building has become a cultural symbol of contemporary art. It is often featured in movies and TV shows. Episodes of "Men in Black" and "Mr. Popper's Penguins" were filmed here, as well as many other movie scenes.
Information for visitors
Getting to the museum is quite easy. By train number 4,5,6 to the station "86th Avenue" Then get on foot to 89th Avenue, where at the corner from 5th Avenue you can immediately notice an unusual stepped building.
The Guggenheim Museum is open to visitors on all days of the week except Thursday. Opening hours from 10:00 to 17:45, and on Friday the museum is open until 20:00. Ticket price is $18.
Sam valadi / flickr.com MCAD Library / flickr.com James Evans / flickr.com heipei / flickr.com Chris Eason / flickr.com Paul Arps / flickr.com Jauher Ali Nasir / flickr.com Sharon Mollerus / flickr.com Lisa Bettany / flickr.com Roman Königshofer / flickr.com Kent Wang / flickr.com Christina Murillo / flickr.com NAParish / flickr.com Hernán Piñera / flickr.com
It is the permanent home of an ever-growing collection of Impressionists, Modern Art, Post-Impressionists, as well as specialty exhibitions throughout the year. Every year, the Guggenheim Museum is visited by more than a million connoisseurs and curious tourists. It hosts some of the most popular art exhibitions in the United States.
The museum was formed by the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation. In 1939 it was already known as the "museum of non-objective painting". The collection was managed at that time by the artist Hille von Rebay. The museum received its name after the death of its founder, in 1952. In 1959, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum moved from rented space to the current building.
The collection has grown organically over a decade, and is based on significant private collections, starting with the amassed collection of Solomon Guggenheim, who shared the accumulated paintings with a sister museum in Bilbao (Spain), as well as in other parts of our planet.
Solomon Robert Guggenheim is a member of a wealthy Jewish American family. In 1848, his father emigrated to the United States from Switzerland to set up an industrial business in Pennsylvania, mining copper, silver, and lead. Business went uphill, metallurgical plants were built, and with them the capital of the Guggenheim family increased.
Solomon was constantly fond of works of art and, since the 1890s, has been collecting old paintings. In 1926, he met the German-born artist Hille von Rebay. It is she who introduces Solomon to European avant-garde art, in particular abstract art. Since then, Solomon has completely changed the collection of the collection, referring to the famous works of Kandinsky and other modern masters of the brush.
Guggenheim began showing his collection to the public in his apartment at the Plaza Hotel. As the collection grew, he created the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation in 1937. The purpose of the foundation is to promote the recognition of contemporary art.
Museum of non-objective painting
The "Museum of Non-Objective Painting", under the direction of Rebay, in downtown Manhattan was opened in 1939. By the early 1940s, such a large collection of avant-garde paintings had accumulated that there was a need for a permanent building. In 1943, Rebay and Guggenheim wrote to Frank Lloyd Wright asking for help in creating a building to house the collection.
View of "Maurizio Cattelan: Everything" exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum (NAParish/flickr.com)
Wright has already become a well-known architect, erecting buildings as "organic architecture". His buildings were unusual and very functional. At that time he was very fashionable and modern, perhaps that is why he was chosen to organize the construction. Many visit Wright's buildings with wonder and admiration, especially the famous Falling House, which has become a popular museum in Pennsylvania.
Frank Wright accepted the opportunity from the Guggenheim to experiment with his organic style in an urban setting. It took him almost 16 years, over 700 sketches and six sets of blueprints to create the museum. And only in 1959 the building was commissioned.
The location of the Guggenheim Museum was not chosen by chance. Together with the architect Wright, Guggenheim viewed various sites in the Bronx and Manhattan overlooking the river. However, the collector felt that the proximity of Central Park would provide relief from the noise of New York, endless traffic jams and asphalt.
Even before its opening, the design of the museum was criticized. Some felt that the building would outshine the exhibits featured in the gallery. But the architect wrote that the building “on the contrary, creates a feeling of the infinity of painting, a beautiful symphony, that art is moving forward…”
On October 21, 1959, ten years after the death of the Guggenheim collector and six months after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum opened its doors to art lovers for the first time. The building has gained wide popularity and recognition, the Guggenheim Museum has inspired many modern architects.
The museum itself is a work of art. An unusual cylindrical structure, much wider at the top than at the bottom, according to the author's idea, is referred to as the "Temple of the Spirit". A unique ramp gallery extends from ground level in a long and continuous spiral along the outer edges of the building, ending at the ceiling. The open rotunda offers visitors a unique opportunity to see several works at the same time and even at different levels. The viewer is given the opportunity to go upstairs in an elevator, and then slowly descend in a spiral and enjoy the works of art.
Over time, it became necessary to expand and reconstruct the building. Significant renovations were carried out from 2005 to 2008, with state-of-the-art equipment, echo technology and lighting installed.
Following the completion of extensive renovations, on September 22, 2008, the Guggenheim Museum celebrated the opening of the renovated building, which was attended by famous contemporary artists, and 2 weeks later it was given the status of a National Historic Landmark.
Collections of the great masters of the brush
During her leadership, Hille contributed to the collection of works by such masters as Rudolf Bauer, Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Modeliani and Pablo Picasso.
In 1948, the collection was greatly expanded through the purchase of real estate by art dealer Karl Nierendorf, in particular German Expressionist paintings. By this time, the foundation's collection included a wide range of paintings by established surrealists and expressionists, including paintings by Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka and Joan Miro.
After the death of Solomon Guggenheim in 1949, members of his family, who are the board of directors of the foundation, were constantly dissatisfied with the work of Rebay. But most likely it was a personal and philosophical disagreement with the artist - the director of the museum. In 1952, Rebay resigned, but nevertheless left part of her personal collection at the Foundation of her own free will. These were the famous works of Kandinsky, Calder, Albert Gleizes, Klee, Kurt Schwitters and Mondrian. In the same year, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting was renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
In 1952 a new director was appointed, James Johnson Sweeney. Thanks to him, the fund was replenished with collections of modernist avant-garde sculptors Constantin Brancusi, Jozsef Csaky, Jean Arp, Calder, Alberto Giacometti, David Smith and many others.
Thanks to the good relationship between Rebay and the artist-collector Katherine Dreyer, the latter donated several valuable works to the Guggenheim Gallery. The collection was replenished by Brancusi and Juan Gris, sculpture by Alexander Archipenko, Duchamp, Mondrian, and Calder.
Exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum (Kent Wang / flickr.com)
In 1961, Thomas M. Messer was appointed head of the museum, who held this post for a record 27 years. During its work, the Guggenheim Museum has held several outstanding exhibitions of Kandinsky, presented many private collections of avant-garde art, including the Russian avant-garde collector Georgy Costakis.
Over time, the foundation acquired paintings by contemporary artists Alberto Giacometti, Willem de Koonning and Jackson Pollock. Impressionist and post-impressionist artists were not ignored. The gallery contains artistic masterpieces by Paul Cezanne, 32 works by Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Pissarro and Van Gogh.
From 1988 to 2008, the museum was headed by Thomas Krenz, who quickly expanded the museum's sculpture and painting fund, including photography. In 1992, the museum donated 200 photographs of the famous homoerotic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, various photographs of which are valued in the tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In addition, some of the most popular exhibitions organized by Tomas Krenz are "Africa: The Art of the Continent" (1996), "China: 5000 Years" (1998), "Brazil: Body and Soul" (2001) and " Aztec Empire (2004)
In 2001, the Art Education Center was opened on the basis of the museum.
From 2008 to the present, the museum has been led by the fifth director, Richard Armstrong. In addition to the permanent collections, the fund is constantly growing.
The museum building has become a cultural symbol of contemporary art. It is often featured in movies and TV shows. Episodes of "Men in Black" and "Mr. Popper's Penguins" were filmed here, as well as many other movie scenes.
Information for visitors
Getting to the museum is quite easy. By train number 4,5,6 to the station "86th Avenue" Then get on foot to 89th Avenue, where at the corner from 5th Avenue you can immediately notice an unusual stepped building.
The Guggenheim Museum is open to visitors on all days of the week except Thursday. Opening hours from 10:00 to 17:45, and on Friday the museum is open until 20:00. Ticket price is $18.
Guggenheim Museum in New York (Guggenheim Museum)The most outstanding creation of Frank Lloyd Wright is located in the heart of Manhattan, on Fifth Avenue. The unique design and unique beauty of the Guggenheim Museum bear the stamp of architectural genius.
The Guggenheim Museum is the most unusual museum in New York and one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. The founder of the museum is philanthropist Solomon Robert Guggenheim.
The Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art in New York dates back to 1937, when the "copper and coal king" and gold miner Solomon Robert Guggenheim, at the age of 58, decided to retire and started collecting art.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York is valuable not only for the works of art exhibited here: the museum building itself invariably arouses the admiration of art connoisseurs and architects from all over the world. Externally, the museum looks like an inverted pyramidal tower. Tourists freeze in front of the Guggenheim Museum in awe. Wright sought to combine architecture with nature and created a building that organically floats to its base, like a clam shell.
Inside, along the walls, a spiral ramp leads, creating a feeling of space open on all sides. The exhibition space starts on the top floor and goes down. Thus, the visitor walking down the ramp has a constantly changing visual perspective, and literally at every step he has the opportunity to look at the exposition from a new point of view. Interior details make up a thoughtful symphony of triangles, ovals, circles and squares. Forms repeat and flow one into another, creating a fantastic environment.
Exhibits of Russian art in the museum
Part of the exhibition "Kandinsky Before Abstraction 1901-1911" at the Guggenheim Museum.
The works of art exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York are known all over the world to this day - as well as the museum created for them by Frank Lloyd Wright.
In 1943, the artist Hilla von Ribay was the personal consultant of Solomon R. Guggenheim, an industrial magnate and art collector. It was she who advised the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright to commission the museum project for the huge Guggenheim collection, which was mainly interested in modern art.
In 1943, in a letter to Wright, von Ribay outlined her idea of building a museum for the Guggenheim collection. She wrote: "I need a fighter for free space, a man of taste, a sage ... I need a temple of spirituality, a monument!" At first, Wright was not very interested in this project.
Finally, after much debate and negotiation, Hill von Ribay, Solomon R. Guggenheim and Frank Lloyd Wright came to an agreement: they chose a site on Fifth Avenue, near Central Park. The location next to the park was one of Wright's main conditions. His new museum was supposed to embody the symbiosis of architecture and nature, merge art, architecture and nature into a harmonious union with the bustling life of a big city.
Wright took the time to develop this project, which is why construction began so late, only in 1956 and was completed in 1959. By this time, Solomon Guggenheim and Frank Wright were no longer alive.
The Solomon Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue is one of the largest and most famous collections of contemporary art in the world. His story is a vivid example of the possibilities of private initiative, inspired by the love of art.
The museum was founded by a very wealthy businessman, collector and philanthropist Solomon Guggenheim. The son of an immigrant family that made a fortune in lead, silver, and copper mines, Solomon mined gold in Alaska. At the end of the 19th century, this workaholic, who worked around the clock, began to collect works of old masters. After World War I, he left the business to focus on collecting. A decisive role in shaping the views of the Guggenheim was played by a meeting with the German artist Baroness Hilla von Ribey, who introduced the patron to abstract art. An avid collector herself, she became a friend and adviser to the Guggenheim, who from now on devoted his life to collecting contemporary art.
In 1937, the patron founded the Guggenheim Foundation, and two years later opened his first "Museum of Non-Objective Painting" in a rented apartment in Manhattan. In his collection there were already paintings by Kandinsky, Mondrian, Chagall, Léger, Picasso. The collection grew rapidly, and in 1943 Hilla Ribey turned to the great Frank Lloyd Wright to design a special building for the museum. Wright took this idea seriously. Work on the project lasted 15 years, but the museum building was opened in October 1959, after the death of the architect. Guggenheim himself did not see the museum either: he died in the late forties.
Wright created a cylindrical building expanding upwards in the center of Manhattan, which he interpreted as a "temple of the spirit." As conceived by the architect, museum visitors must first take the elevator under the roof of the building, and then go down the continuous spiral ramp, examining the exposition along the way. Public opinion did not immediately accept Wright's idea. Artists have even signed petitions against the corkscrew design.
Nevertheless, now the museum is visited by about three million people a year. It has first-class collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, non-objective painting and sculpture. Here are the works of modernist sculptors - Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp, Alexander Calder (the founder of kinetic sculpture), Alberto Giacometti. At the same time, the museum has true masterpieces by Paul Gauguin (Man and Horse), Edouard Manet (Before a Mirror, Woman in Evening Dress), Camille Pizarro (Hermitage in Pontoise), Vincent van Gogh (Snowy landscape”, “Mountains in Saint-Remy”), Pablo Picasso (“The Fourteenth of July”, “Three Bathers”). The local collection includes about 150 works by Wassily Kandinsky.
Unlike many museums, the Guggenheim does not divide its collection into sections dedicated to eras and styles. The collection is conceived and exhibited as a whole, which is constantly replenished with works of new talents - often paradoxical.
1071 5th Avenue New York, NY 10128
The Solomon Guggenheim Museum has the world's largest collection of contemporary art. The museum building itself deserves special attention. As they say about it in the museum, “if this is a frame, can you imagine what is inside?”. The building is included in the list of the twenty most famous buildings of the last century.
Entrance to the museum costs $25, tickets can be bought online. Here on the site you can also view current and future exhibitions and decide in advance whether you want to see only the “frame”, or the art inside as well.
Please check in advance on the museum website if all sections are open to the public. Plan at least four hours to visit the Guggenheim Museum. If you want, this day can be made "museum". The Guggenheim Museum is located on the so-called "Museum Mile" in New York. Nearby on Fifth Avenue is The Metropolitan Museum of Art (82nd Street), Museum of New York (103rd Street). The Emanu-El Synagogue (also Fifth Avenue and 65th Street) is also nearby. If two or three museums are enough for one day, then Central Park is located across the road from the Guggenheim, where you can have a great rest at any time of the year.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Opening hours:
The museum is closed every Thursday. Sunday - Wednesday and Friday: 10 am to 5.45 pm, Saturday: 10 am to 7.45 pm. The museum is closed on Christmas (December 25) and Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November). Check the opening hours of the Guggenheim Museum on the official website.
Nearest metro stops:
86 Street (lines 4, 5, 6)
See the museum during excursions (without visiting the museum):
Double decker tour
