JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION. VENICE/ITALY

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Monday, Tishrei 26, 5778. October 16, 2017.

Shalom! World.


The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a modern art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is one of the most visited attractions in Venice. The collection is housed in the Pallazo Venier dei Leoni, na 18th-century palace, which was the home of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim for three decades. She began displaying her private collection of moder artworks to the public seasonally in 1951. After her death in 1979, it passed to the Solomon R. Guggennheim Foundation, which eventual opened  the collection year-round. 


The collection includes Works of prominent Italian futurists and American modernists working in such genres as Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract expressionismo. It also includes sculptural  works.


The collection principally based on the personal art collection of Peggy Guggenheim, a former wife of artist Max Ernst and a niece of the magnate, Solomon R. Guggenheim. She collected the artworks mostly between 1938 and 1946, buying Works in Europe "in dizzying succession" as World War began, and later in América, where she discovered the talent of Jackson Polllock, among others. The museum "houses na impressive selection of modern art. Its picturesque setting and well-respected collection attract some 400.000 visitors per year", making it "the most-visited site in Venice after Doge's  Palace".  Works on display include those of prominent Italian futurists and American modernists. Pieces in the collection embrace Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract expressionismo. During Peggy Guggenheim's 30-years residence in Venice, her collection was  seen at her home in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni and at special exhibitions in Amsterdam (1950), Zürich (1951), London (1964), Stockholm (1966), Copenhagen (1966), New York (1969) and Paris (1974). 



Among the artists represented in the collection are, from Italy, De  Chirico and Severini; from France, Braque, Metzinger, Gleizes, Duchamp, Léger, Picabia; from Spain, Dalí, Miró, Picasso; from other European countries, Brâncusi, Max Ernst,, Giacometti, Gorky, Kandinsky, Kleee, Magritte, Mondrian; from the USA,  Calder and Pollock. In one room, the museum also exhibits a few  paintings by  Peggy's daughter Pegeen Vail Guggenheim.


In addition to the permanente collection, the museum has during the year visitors exhibitions like the italian artist Tancredi. 

Shalom! Aleichem.

Cultural Support:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz .


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