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Paul Cézanne . Still Life: Flask, Glass, and Jug

Paul Cézanne, Still Life: Flask, Glass, and Jug, ca. 1877. Oil on canvas, 18 x 21 3/4 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Thannhauser Collection, Gift, Justin K. Thannhauser 78.2514.3


Vasily Kandinsky, Accompanied Contrast

Vasily Kandinsky, Winter Landscape with Church, 1910–11 (detail). Oil on board, 33 x 44.5 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift  37.502

Thannhauser Collection

Ongoing

Justin K. Thannhauser was the son of renowned art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser, who founded the Galerie Moderne in Munich in 1909. From an early age, Thannhauser worked with his father, building an impressive program of exhibitions of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and the art of the contemporary French and German avant-gardes. The Thannhausers’ commitment to promoting artistic progress paralleled the vision of Solomon R. Guggenheim. In recognition of this shared spirit, Justin Thannhauser ultimately bequest a significant portion of his art collection—including masterpieces by Cézanne, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Pissarro, Renoir, and van Gogh—which is on view in a dedicated gallery, to the Guggenheim Museum.

Kandinsky and Expressionist
Painting before World War I

Opening September 27, 2008

The work of Post-Impressionists, such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and the Fauves, and the Cubists in Paris, all informed the development of Expressionist art in the years immediately preceding World War I. From Vasily Kandinsky to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, artists who came to be associated with Expressionism sought to convey the communicative force of color through vibrantly hued canvases and bold forms. This exhibition highlights the work of Kandinsky, an artist who has been closely linked to the history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and to whom this gallery is dedicated. The connections among these different artists were severed with the 1914 outbreak of World War I. Nonetheless, the postwar period saw the reunion of Kandinsky, Klee, and Jawlensky, who together with Lyonel Feininger formed the Blue Four group in the United States. It was then that these artists were able to pursue their color theories with renewed vigor.