Best Known For Solomon R. Guggenheim was an American business
magnate and art lover who provided the initial collection and
name for the Guggenheim Museum. Think you know about Biography?
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Now Born on February 2, 1861, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Solomon R. Guggenheim worked in his family industry of imports
and mining before devoting time to art collecting post-
retirement. His friend, Baroness Hilla Rebay, encouraged him to
immerse himself in nonobjective art, and the two would go on to
establish the Guggenheim Museum in 1939, now an internationally
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