biography
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Guggenheim, Solomon R(obert)
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pronunciation:
[gugenhiym]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1861–1949)
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| biography:
| Businessman and art collector, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, the son of Meyer Guggenheim. He studied in Zürich, and became a partner in his father's Swiss embroidery import business. He returned to the USA (1889), worked in the family mining industry in Colorado and New Mexico, then moved to the business headquarters in New York City (1895). He was a director of many family companies and a founder of the Yukon Gold Co in Alaska before retiring from business in 1919. With the assistance of Hilla Rebay, he collected important Modernist paintings and established the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation (1937). This was the source of funds for the temporary Museum of Non-Objective Paintings (1937) and the permanent Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1959. |
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