The Guggenheim And The Baroness Director: Sigrid Faltin
Running Time: 52 minutes
Germany 2004
A fascinating portrait of Hilla Rebay, also known as ‘the baroness’ who established the Guggenheim Museum and with it changed the face of modern art. Hella was the woman behind Solomon Guggenheim, Frank Lloyd Wright and Wassily Kandinsky, to name but a few. She promoted the avant-garde who eventually became world famous. 35 years after her death, Hella is being rediscovered. The film is also a great love story, Rudolf Bauer, a German painter, for whom she would have sacrificed everything – her career as a painter, her friendships with Kandinsky and Frank Lloyd Wright and others, while he exploited and betrayed her.
Screening: 22 October at 8.15 p.m.: Maison Francaise