"Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of colors and forms has understood nonobjective painting."
Hilla Rebay, also known as Hilla von Rebay, was an artist born in Strasbourg in 1890 and died in Connecticut in 1967. A leading figure of non-objective art, she was the first director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Trained as a portrait and figurative painter, she took an early interest in theosophy and spiritual ideas. She moved in European avant-garde circles, from Dada in Zurich to the Der Sturm gallery in Berlin, and turned to non-objective art, to which she attributed a spiritual meaning.
