Guggenheim, 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright
Kisairis Espinal
The Guggenheim Museum (The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) is an art museum located in New York on Fifth Avenue. this museum is the permanent home for post-impressionist, early modern, impressionist and contemporary art, all these feature exhibitions throughout time. this was a Frank Lloyd Wright project the idea “temple of the spirit” this cylindrical building is wider at the top than the bottom. Its interior unique ramp extends from the ground level in a long continuous spiral throughout the outer edge of the building. In 1992 the building went through a renovation when the adjoining tower was built. Throughout the eight decades, the museum has grown tremendously from the original collection. 1.2 million people have visited the museum and have been stated to be the most popular exhibition in New York.
Solomon R. Guggenheim comes from a wealthy mining family. That collects very old masterpieces since 1890’s. During 1926 he met the Hilla con Rebey, they introduced him to European art a (non-objective art). After this Guggenheim changed his collecting strategy so he turns to Wassily Kandinsky and others. He began to show his work to the public at his apartment in the Plaza hotel in New York. Throughout time his collection grew so he establishes the Solomon R. Guggenheim foundation 1937 where he applied his appreciation to modern art.
They open the first display of art in 1939 in midtown Manhattan. the whole objective of what was shown in the exhibition was the most important of non-objective art that was available at the time by Rudolf Bauer, Rebay, Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Leger, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso. By the 1940s the foundation had grown so much that the large painting needed a new location, so Guggenheim wrote Wright a letter of how he wanted a design of a structure to house all his display. It took 15 years, 6 sets of drawing and 700 sketches to create the museum. “ In 1948, the collection was greatly expanded through the purchase of art dealer Karl Nierendorft’s estate of some 730 objects, notably German expressionist painting”(CURBED, NEW YORK). Around this time the foundation collection had expanded on their painting collection by other artists that had joined and wanted to display their work. In 1949 Guggenheim died, so his family members that were part of the board has some difference with Rebay and she resigned in 1952 from the museum. Rebay had an idea that the way the building was designed would facilitate a new way to view the modern pieces. In the letter, she wrote to Wright she emphasizing the way the painting would be organized within the spaces. Paul Goldberger says that before this building built there were only two examples of museum design which were the Beaux-arts Palace and the International Style Pavilion. At the time this was huge change within society and culturally acceptable as an architectural design. There were many sketches made from 1943 to the earl 1944, the concept he used was the “ziggurat” which was something he had explored in the house he did for his son in 1952. Wright believed that the ziggurat represented the steep steps built in the ancient Mesopotamia. His goal for the layout was the visitors would be led by a series of an interconnecting room which would retrace their steps when they head out. He envisions the guest taking the elevator up which descended along the slope and then work their way down to view the atrium as the last work of art of the museum.
Sources:
-Smithsonian.com,https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-triumph-of-frank-lloyd-wright-132535844/.Accessed 24 Mar. 2018.
Solomon R. Guggenheim comes from a wealthy mining family. That collects very old masterpieces since 1890’s. During 1926 he met the Hilla con Rebey, they introduced him to European art a (non-objective art). After this Guggenheim changed his collecting strategy so he turns to Wassily Kandinsky and others. He began to show his work to the public at his apartment in the Plaza hotel in New York. Throughout time his collection grew so he establishes the Solomon R. Guggenheim foundation 1937 where he applied his appreciation to modern art.
They open the first display of art in 1939 in midtown Manhattan. the whole objective of what was shown in the exhibition was the most important of non-objective art that was available at the time by Rudolf Bauer, Rebay, Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Leger, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso. By the 1940s the foundation had grown so much that the large painting needed a new location, so Guggenheim wrote Wright a letter of how he wanted a design of a structure to house all his display. It took 15 years, 6 sets of drawing and 700 sketches to create the museum. “ In 1948, the collection was greatly expanded through the purchase of art dealer Karl Nierendorft’s estate of some 730 objects, notably German expressionist painting”(CURBED, NEW YORK). Around this time the foundation collection had expanded on their painting collection by other artists that had joined and wanted to display their work. In 1949 Guggenheim died, so his family members that were part of the board has some difference with Rebay and she resigned in 1952 from the museum. Rebay had an idea that the way the building was designed would facilitate a new way to view the modern pieces. In the letter, she wrote to Wright she emphasizing the way the painting would be organized within the spaces. Paul Goldberger says that before this building built there were only two examples of museum design which were the Beaux-arts Palace and the International Style Pavilion. At the time this was huge change within society and culturally acceptable as an architectural design. There were many sketches made from 1943 to the earl 1944, the concept he used was the “ziggurat” which was something he had explored in the house he did for his son in 1952. Wright believed that the ziggurat represented the steep steps built in the ancient Mesopotamia. His goal for the layout was the visitors would be led by a series of an interconnecting room which would retrace their steps when they head out. He envisions the guest taking the elevator up which descended along the slope and then work their way down to view the atrium as the last work of art of the museum.
Sources:
-Hoban, Stephen. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: An Architectural Appreciation. Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2013.
-CURBED NEW YORK, Amy Plitt, https://ny.curbed.com/2017/6/8/15758978/guggenheim-museum-new-york-frank-lloyd-wright-history. Accessed 24 Apr. 2018.
-Smithsonian.com,https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-triumph-of-frank-lloyd-wright-132535844/.Accessed 24 Mar. 2018.
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