Pemcast: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection

The Peggy Guggenheim collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier de Leoni in Venice, an unfinished building and one of only two in Venice by architect Lorenzo Boschetti.

The collection contains masterpieces of Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical painting, European Abstractionism, avant-garde sculpture, Surrealism, and American Abstract Expressionism.  Its founder was Peggy Guggenheim, whose father died on the Titanic. She saved her art collection and the lives of artists from the Nazis in Europe, and was instrumental in the development of twentieth century art.

This is where Katherine Hobart (2018), studying at Pembroke on the Fall Semester Programme, spent her summer. An Art History student from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Katherine is interested in classical and modern art alike. At the Collection she got to know Peggy Guggenheim’s story well over the course of the summer, and described her enjoyment at spending time around surrealist works with which “the more you look the more things reveal themselves to you”.

To hear more about Katherine’s summer in Venice listen to the latest ‘Pemcast’ on our YouTube page.

Photo credit: Katherine Hobart