Guggenheim Museum, officially Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, major museum of modern art in New York City. Founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-objective Art, the Guggenheim is known for its remarkable circular building (1959) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867–1959, American architect, b. Richland Center, Wis. Wright is widely considered the greatest American architect. After studying civil engineering at the Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. . It holds major exhibitions of the works of contemporary artists. Its permanent collection includes, among many modern works, numerous pieces by Brancusi Brancusi, Constantin (bränky
`zē, Rom.
..... Click the link for more information. and Kandinsky Kandinsky, Wassily or Vasily (kăndĭn`skē, Rus.
..... Click the link for more information. . In 1992 the Guggenheim opened a 10-story limestone addition in the rear of its original structure and also began operating a branch in the city's SoHo district. The museum is part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which also controls the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The gigantic, spectacularly curving, titanium-sheathed Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank Gehry Gehry, Frank Owen (gĕr`ē), 1929–, American architect, b. Toronto, Canada as Frank Owen Goldberg.
..... Click the link for more information. and inaugurated in 1997, is also under its aegis. That same year the foundation also opened a much smaller Berlin branch.
Guggenheim Museum
..... Click the link for more information. . It holds major exhibitions of the works of contemporary artists. Its permanent collection includes, among many modern works, numerous pieces by Brancusi Brancusi, Constantin (bränky
`zē, Rom...... Click the link for more information. and Kandinsky Kandinsky, Wassily or Vasily (kăndĭn`skē, Rus.
..... Click the link for more information. . In 1992 the Guggenheim opened a 10-story limestone addition in the rear of its original structure and also began operating a branch in the city's SoHo district. The museum is part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which also controls the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The gigantic, spectacularly curving, titanium-sheathed Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank Gehry Gehry, Frank Owen (gĕr`ē), 1929–, American architect, b. Toronto, Canada as Frank Owen Goldberg.
..... Click the link for more information. and inaugurated in 1997, is also under its aegis. That same year the foundation also opened a much smaller Berlin branch.
Guggenheim Museum
an international chain of art museums, some of which are architecturally important buildings in their own right, most notably one in New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1956--59), and one in Bilbao, desgned by Frank O Gehry (1997)
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