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Academie Julian - Student
Dusseldorf (Germany) Art Academy - Student
Munich Academy of Fine Arts / Royal Academy - Student
Teachers:
Jean Paul Laurens
Some Exhibitions:
Salon d'Automne
Hilla Rebay and the Museum of Non - Objective Painting, DC Moore Gallery (New York) - 2005
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (retrospective exhibition) The Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany The Schlossmuseum in Murnau, Germany The Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Exhibited with Kandinsky at Rudolf Bauer's gallery in Berlin-Charlottenberg, Germany
Exhibited collages and drawings at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts - (Rebay was one of the few female abstract painters of her time)
"Galerie Dada", Berlin Germany (group exhibition)
"Galerie Der Sturm", Berlin Germany (group exhibition)
After she moved to the USA - she became the Artistic Advisor to Solomon R. Guggenheim. Served as the first director and curator of Guggenheim's Museum of Non-Objective Painting (renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952).
As the first director of the Museum, Rebay became an institution of the New York art world.
Rebay commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a permanent museum for the Guggenheim collection.
1952 - Rebay resigned as Director of the Guggenheim Museum but retained role of Director Emeritus.
Literature:
Hilla Rebay: In search of the Spirit in Art. Author: Joan M. Lukach.1983 | |
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