Free Thannhauser Collection: French Modernism At The Guggenheim By Megan Fontanella Available In EPub

Justin K. Thannhauserbrought his collection of modern art to the Solomon R, Guggenheim Museum in, it was his crowning achievement after more than a halfcentury as one of Europe's most influential

and distinguished collectors and dealers.
The collection's formal bequeathal to the Guggenheim inrepresents a watershed moment for the museumtoday its Thannhauser Collection constitutes the core of the Guggenheim's impressionist, postimpressionist, and School of Paris holdings, includingworks by Pablo Picasso.


This volume presents the astonishing collection in full, offering a concentrated survey of works by such modern masters as Braque, Czanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Picasso, Pissarro and Van Gogh, among others.
Throughout, artworks are given rich context and detail with historical installation views and hightech conservation images, Short essays on collection highlights by current and former Guggenheim curators and conservators illuminate the artists' stylistic innovations as they sought to liberate art from academic genres and techniques.
The book also features extensive technical analyses, offering rare insight into the artists' materials and processes based on the latest advances in conservation technology.
A lead essay by Megan Fontanella recounts the genesis of Thannhauser's collection and its eventual transfer to the Guggenheim Museum, Tracing his ambitious career as gallerist and collector in Europe during the interwar years and into the calamity of World War II, she explores how Thannhauser's lifelong support for experimental art and eye for original talent helped define the modernist vanguard ofthcentury art.
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