biografía de Hilla REBAY (1890-1967)

Lugar de nacimiento: Strasbourg, Alsace, France

Direcciones: Greens Farms, CT

Profesión: Painter, writer, museum director, collector, lecturer

Estudios: Academies in Düsseldorf and Munich; Acad. Julian, Paris, with J.P. Laurens, G. Royer &Laparra.

Exposiciones: Salon des Indépendents, Paris, 1911; Freie Secession, Berlin, 1913; Secessions, Munich, 1912; Worcester MA, 1928; Bernheim Jeune, Charpentier Gals., Paris; Marie Sterner, Wildenstein Gals., NYC; Salon des Tuileries, Salon d'Automne, Salon Nouvelles Réalités, Paris, France, since 1929; CPLH; GGE 1939

Obra: in museums in U.S., France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany.

Comentarios: An important promoter of modern art in America, she immigrated to the U.S. in 1926 and beginning in 1935 became Solomon R. Guggenheim"s first director of the Mus. Non-Objective Painting, which later became the Guggenheim Museum, NYC (of which she was director until 1952). In 1915, she was greatly influenced by Hans Arp in Paris, who introduced her to many of the modern painters. Later, Rudolph Bauer also provided introductions to the leading modernists, and Guggenheim"s collection grew in importance. Other positions: trustee, Mid-Fairfield County Youth Mus., Westport, CT Auth.: Wassily Kandinsky"; "Kandinsky Memorial"; "Moholy-Nagy Memorial." Contrib.: Southern Literary Digest, Carnegie Inst. Magazine, New Age, Realities, and other publications. Her full name was Baroness Hildegard Rebay von Ehrenwiesen.

Fuentes: WW66; WW47; American Abstract Art, 195"