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.(Biography provided by Lincoln Glenn)
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Artist: Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen
Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist Drawing 1940s w/c
By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist 1940s Drawing w/c
HILLA REBAY (1890 - 1967, GERMAN/AMERICAN)
Abstract
watercolor and graphite on paper
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1940s Abstract Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art
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Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist Drawing 1940s w/c
By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist 1940s Drawing w/c
HILLA REBAY (1890 - 1967, GERMAN/AMERICAN)
Abstract
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945. 8x9 inches.
Provenance: Estate of Hilla Rebay; Gary Snyder Fine Art, NY.
In March of 1996, Snyder Fine Art opened its exhibition, Museum of Non-Objective Painting: American Abstract Art. Gary Snyder acquired a large body of works from the Hilla Rebay Estate, many of the works on paper spent decades archivaly stored in flat files with fresh colors and immaculate paper.
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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 (pronounced reh-bye) was born to minor nobility in Strasbourg, Alsace and had the full name of Baroness Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Rebay von Ehrenwiesen. 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 "who helped formulate her lifelong belief in the power of intuition in art-making and other areas of life" (Glueck). 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...
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1940s Abstract Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art
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Paper, Watercolor
Cat Friends Portrait, Collage on Paper - Guggenheim Museum Founder
By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen
Located in Miami, FL
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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1930s Blue Rider Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art
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Portrait of a Woman, Paper Collage
By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen
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Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Freiin Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, known as Baroness Hilla von Rebay or simply Hilla Rebay was the co-founder of the Museum...
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1930s Modern Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art
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Paper
"Hold On"
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 Museu...
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20th Century Modern Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art
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Mixed Media, Paper
"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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20th Century Modern Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art
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"Catch a Flying Bunny"
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 Museu...
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20th Century Modern Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art
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"La Surprise"
By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Cut Paper Collage, Signed Lower Left.
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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20th Century Modern Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art
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"Patinage"
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 Museu...
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20th Century Modern Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art
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"Toccata"
By Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen
Located in Lambertville, NJ
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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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Art
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