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Hilla Rebay

Ohne Titel / Untitled, 1930

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Asian Woman, 1928

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1890: Born (Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen) in Strasbourg, France
1906: Studied at the Academie Julien under Rollais and Bouche
1910: Continued studies in Munich, Germany
1913: Moved to Berlin
1915: Met Jean Arp in Zurich
1917: "Galerie Dada", Berlin Germany (group exhibition)
"Galerie Der Sturm", Berlin Germany (group exhibition)
1927: Moved to the USA; became 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)
Befriended Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall
1936 - 1939: Organized exhibitions of Guggenheim's collection in Charleston, South Carolina; Philadelphia, and Baltimore
1937: Helped Solomon Guggenheim establish the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
1939: Museum Opened in New York with inaugural exhibition, "Art of Tomorrow"
1943: Rebay commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a permanent museum for the Guggenheim collection
1952: Resigned as director of the Guggenheim Museum; retained role of director emeritus
1967: Died on September 27th

2005: Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (retrospective exhibition), traveled to: the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; the Schlossmuseum in Murnau, Germany; the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
1929 - 1939: Exhibited with Kandinsky at Rudolf Bauer's gallery in Berlin-Charlottenberg, Germany
1927: Exhibited collages and drawings at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts (Rebay was one of the few female abstract painters of her time)

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