Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is an art museum in the Palacio de Villahermosa in Madrid , not far from the Prado . On display are paintings that have been collected by Heinrich Thyssen and especially by his son Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon .

The museum opened on October 8, 1992 in the presence of King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia . The main part of the art collection was acquired by the Spanish state in 1993 . The museum is organized on the basis of the art epochs . A tour therefore takes you through the history of art, starting with early Italian art to important works of the experimental avant-garde and pop art .

Since 2004, an extension of the museum has housed the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection , which the last wife of Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza had collected since the mid-1980s and which supplements the original collection with mainly Spanish paintings from the 17th century to the modern age.

Paintings on display

(Selection)

  • Hans Holbein the Younger: Heinrich VIII.

  • Canaletto: Piazza San Marco

  • Derick Baegert: The captain under the cross

  • Vittore Carpaccio: Portrait of a Knight

  • Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä .: Resting spring nymph

  • Albrecht Dürer: The twelve year old Jesus among the scribes

  • Domenico Ghirlandaio: Giovanna Tornabuoni

  • Paul Gauguin: Coming and Going (Collection Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza)

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Fränzi in front of a carved chair

  • Nicolaes Maes: The Naughty Drummer

  • Vincent Van Gogh: Les Vessenots, Auvers

  • Paul Cézanne: Portrait du paysan

  • Peter Paul Rubens : Venus and Cupid with a mirror

  • Vincent van Gogh: Gennep's watermill (Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection)

  • François Clouet : La carta amorosa

  • Francisco de Goya: Asensio Julià

  • Francisco de Goya: El Tío Paquete

Temporary exhibitions

The museum is continuously the scene of various exhibitions, for example

Web links

Commons : Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 40 ° 24 ′ 58 "  N , 3 ° 41 ′ 42"  W.