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Solomon R. Guggenheim
Solomon Robert Guggenheim was an American businessman in needlework, gold, silver, copper, and lead and an art collector. He is best known for establishing the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
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business · American businessman and art collector (1861–1949) · art collector · entrepreneur · industrialist · also Solomon R. Guggenheim, Solomon Robert Guggenheim, Solomon Guggenheim, S. R. Guggenheim, Guggenheim
Born 2 February 1861 · Died 3 November 1948 · Q444352
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Hyperallergic: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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1952· 1 entry
After Solomon Guggenheim's death in 1949
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1948· 2 entries
Died 1948-11-03.
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The collection was greatly expanded through the purchase of art dealer Karl Nierendorf's estate of some 730 objects, notably German expressionist paintings
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1943· 1 entry
Guggenheim and Rebay commissioned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a new museum building
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1939· 1 entry
And his art advisor, Baroness Rebay, opened a venue for the display of his collection, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, at 24 East 54th Street in New York City
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1937· 1 entry
Guggenheim established the Solomon R
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1930· 1 entry
Visited Wassily Kandinsky’s studio in Dessau, Germany, and Guggenheim began to purchase Kandinsky's work
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1919· 1 entry
To devote more time to art collecting and in 1926, met Baroness Hilla von Rebay
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1906· 1 entry
Founded the Yukon Gold Company in the Yukon Territory and Alaska
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1891· 1 entry
Turned around the Compañia de la Gran Fundición Nacional Mexicana (translation: Great National Foundry Company of Mexico)
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1879· 1 entry
Meyer Guggenheim bought one-third of a lead and silver mine in Leadville, Colorado, which turned out to be the start of the greatest mining empire in the world at the time, mining metals such as gold, silver, copper, and
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1861· 1 entry
Born 1861-02-02.
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