Die Baroness und das Guggenheim (2005)

• 59%
• 2005

Archival métrage, still photographs, and contemporary interviews tell the story of Hilla Rebay (1890-1967), l'oms convinced, Solomon Guggenheim to establish the Guggenheim Foundation to promote and collect non-objective de l'art, build the museum that bears his name, and use Frank Lloyd Wright as its architect. The film's thesis is that without Hilla there would be no musée. It traces her early talent, friendships à Zurich with artists, falling in love with Rudolf Bauer, coming to America, en 1927, and becoming Guggenheim s guide to modern art. The arrogant Bauer spurns her, le Guggenheim s death leads to her rejet from the foundation, but she maintains her high spirits to the end.