Please note: There is currently no artwork by Vasily Kandinsky on display at the Guggenheim, as A Year with Children 2012 will be on view in Annex Level 3 from May 11 to June 13. Our next Kandinsky show will open early summer 2012.
From Berlin To New York: Karl Nierendorf and the Guggenheim
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Ewald Mataré, Standing Cow (Stehende Kuh), 1923. Bronze, 18.4 x 33.7 x 20 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 48.1172.603
January 25–May 4, 2008
As an art dealer, German-born Karl Nierendorf (1889–1947) specialized in acquiring and selling works on paper, especially those of German and Austrian Expressionist artists. Immigrating to the United States in 1936, he established the Nierendorf Gallery in New York while his brother remained behind in Berlin to oversee Galerie Nierendorf—a gallery still in existence today. Nierendorf soon met Hilla Rebay (1890–1967), the founding director and curator of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, the forerunner of the Guggenheim Museum, with whom he shared a passion for the art of Vasily Kandinsky. Under Rebay’s guidance, the museum purchased work from Nierendorf, and following his death, acquired his entire estate in 1948.
This exhibition examines Nierendorf’s commitment to the avant-garde through a selection of Guggenheim Collection works that passed through his gallery by such artists as Josef Albers, Adolph Gottlieb, Vasily Kandinsky, Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, and Franz Marc, among others.