Word: ehrenwiesen
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...backer modern art has ever known was the late Solomon R. Guggenheim, multi millionaire mining magnate (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin) who late in life switched from collecting traditional Dutch masters to avant-garde art under the tutelage of his good friend and mentor, Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, set up Manhattan's Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Two years ago his nephew, Harry F. Guggenheim, announced a biennial, round-the-world search for new paintings, established a purse of $10,000 for first prize...
...copper business before he fell for his first nonobjective painting about eleven years ago. Since then he has accumulated 726 of them, the world's biggest private collection. His guide and friend in non-objectivity has been a fortyish, fervent lady artist, the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen...
Thus Manhattan learned of the fourth and least utilitarian of the great Guggenheim foundations.* Announcement of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation came from the donor's lawyers. Old Mr. Guggenheim was in Europe for consultations with Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, who helped him make his collection of pure "nonobjective" paintings, lately shown in Philadelphia (TIME, Feb. 15). Now housed partly in the Guggenheim house at Port Washington, N. Y.. partly in Mr. Guggenheim's apartment at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, the collection will be the nucleus for a museum of abstract art of which...
...Academy of Design. The basis of their philosophy is that a picture should not attempt to represent anything or suggest anything, should be an exercise in pure form, sufficient unto itself. In the introduction to the elaborate catalog of last week's show the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, moderately well-known as an abstractionist in her own right, wrote...
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