Peggy Guggenheim
| Margurite 'Peggy' Guggenheim was a patron of the modernist art scene of elite family Guggenheim (American-Swiss Ashkenazi jews, who profited from the mining industry). She was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim and Florette Seligman. She was related to Harold Loeb. She had a relationship with Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy, both members of the Surrealist movement of André Breton, based on the theories of Sigmund Freud. She helped Ernst emigrate to the US (transferred by Varian Fry) after the Entarte Kunst exhibition. She was the patron of Jackson Pollock (CCF), Emma Goldman, Jean Cocteau and promoted Frida Kahlo. In the 30's she had a relationship with Samuel Beckett. |  |
She visited Marcel Duchamp in the Montparnasse scene in Paris. She pushed the lesbian agenda with Nathalie Barney (salon in Paris with André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Nancy Cunard, Rainer Maria Rilke).
In 1938 she established a gallery in London next to the gallery of Lionel Penrose's son Roland Penrose, used to promote Jean Cocteau, Wassily Kandinsky, Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi and surrealist Yves Tanguy. She started an art collection at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice (Venus associated with femininty and art).
The father of Harry Hay (OTO) worked for the Guggenheims in Chile.
The Guggenheims funded Robert Goddard, a friend of Oddfellow Charles Lindbergh and Frank Malina (Suicide Squad of Jack Parsons). The Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA was named after him (used as a programming center, mentioned in Cathy O'Brien's Trance Formation with Oddfellow Robert Byrd as handler).
She appeared in Eva of Joseph Losey with Jeanne Moreau (like Crowley's Scarlett Woman Jeanne Robert Foster).
born 8/26/1898.
died 12/23/1979.
Peggy Guggenheim in pop culture
1997 James Cameron's Titanic the character Rose (Kate Winslet) was based on Peggy Guggenheim and Theosophist Beatrice Wood (Hollywood High School).
2000 Pollock Ed Harris Amy Madigan.
2015 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict clips from Maya Deren's The Witch's Cradle.
2023 Transatlantic Netflix Michael Cory Smith as Varian Fry Moritz Bleibtrue as Walter Benjamin Johy Mai as Peggy Guggenheim Alexa Karolinska as Hannah Arendt Anna Winger (The NY Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)