Carmen Thyssen Andorra Museum

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Exterior view of the Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra

The Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra is an art museum in Andorra . It is located in Escaldes-Engordany , a municipality neighboring the capital Andorra la Vella . The museum was created in 2017 on the initiative of the art collector Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza (also called Carmen Cervera), who had previously founded the Museo Carmen Thyssen in Málaga . The museum in Andorra shows parts of their extensive art collection in temporary exhibitions.

building

The "Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra" is located on the ground floor of the former Valira Hotel . This was founded in 1929 by Benedictine monks from the Montserrat monastery and built according to plans by the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch . After it opened in 1933, there were various tenants until it was sold to the Reig family in 1943. This continued to run the hotel and is the owner of the building to the present day. The building, which has been a listed building since 2004, was fundamentally modernized after a fire inside the building and converted into condominiums from 2014. On the ground floor, exhibition rooms were created that are equipped with security and air conditioning technology that is special for museum purposes. The museum has a total area of ​​500 m², of which 250 m² is available as gallery space.

Foundation of the museum

The founder of the “Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra” is the Spaniard Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, whose third husband, the entrepreneur and art collector Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon , increased her interest in art. She built up her own art collection during her husband's lifetime and expanded it through acquisitions after his death. While her husband's art collection was transferred to the Spanish state in 1993 and has since been on view in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid , Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza's art collection is privately owned and is on public display in various locations. A large part of their collection with works by European artists from the Middle Ages to the modern age and American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries has been on view as a permanent exhibition in a wing of the Madrid Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum since 2004. In addition, she has exhibited numerous paintings by Spanish painters - mostly works from the 19th century - at the Museo Carmen Thyssen in Málaga since 2011 . In addition, the “Espai Carmen Thyssen” exhibition space has been available in the monastery of Sant Feliu de Guíxols since 2012 . Temporary exhibitions with different focuses were shown here. A museum for Catalan painting is to be created from this from 2020.

Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza has an official residence in Andorra. Tax reasons are said to have been the decisive factor, as reported by the newspaper El Mundo . In addition, there were already family connections to Andorra, as her nephew Guillermo Cervera worked there as a pastry chef. He found a new job in the "Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra" and became the museum's artistic director.

The museum is operated by the non-profit foundation Fundació Museu Andorra (MUSEAND). The Foundation's Board of Trustees consists of: Olga Gelabert , President of the Foundation and Minister for Culture, Youth and Sport of Andorra; Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, vice-president of the foundation and museum founder; Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza, Vice President of the Foundation and son of Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza; Guillermo Cervera, Artistic Director of the Museum; Pep Farràs, managing director of the foundation; Jordi Bech, Secretary of the Foundation. The rental costs for the museum are borne by the municipality of Escaldes-Engordany, while the Andorra Ministry of Culture financed the renovation costs and supports ongoing operations with 300,000 euros per year.

Exhibitions

Camille Pissarro: Road to Versailles, Louveciennes, winter sun and snow , shown in the exhibition Allées et venues

The museum's first exhibition lasted from March 16, 2017 to January 14, 2018. Under the title Escenaris. De Monet a Estes. De Trouville a Nueva York showed 26 paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries. These included works by artists such as Henri Matisse , Claude Monet , Paul Gauguin , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Alfred Sisley , Paul Signac , Max Beckmann , Joaquín Torres García , Richard Estes , Ramon Casas i Carbó , Joaquim Mir and Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa .

In the first year of the exhibition, the museum had 20,000 visitors.

The second exhibition, which opened on February 16, 2018 and ran until September 10, 2018, featured landscapes from four centuries under the title Allées et venues . Here were Santiago Rusiñol , Alexandre de Cabanyes i Marquès , Emil Nolde , Alfred Sisley, Erich Heckel , Camille Pissarro and Paul Gauguin to the exhibited artists.

The third exhibition entitled Femina Feminae. Les Muses i la Col·leccionista. De Piazzetta a Delaunay took place from October 10, 2018 to September 10, 2019. Portraits of women from around three centuries of art history were shown. Works of various styles by artists such as Robert Delaunay , Berthe Morisot , Richard Lindner , Winslow Homer , Diego Rivera and Tom Wesselmann were on view .

Since October 6, 2019, the fourth exhibition has been showing Influencers en l'Art. De Van Goyen al Pop Art works from the 17th century to the present, in which the influence of painters and sculptors on subsequent artists is shown. The 24 paintings and three sculptures on display come from artists such as Jan van Goyen , Claude Monet , Auguste Rodin , Antonio Saura , Andy Warhol and Georg Tappert . The exhibition is planned to run until September 6, 2020.

Web links

Commons : Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Yasmina Canedo: Un museu viu i obert. Article in Portella Magazine No. 12 by ENGITEC.
  2. Information on Espai Carmen Thyssen on the institution's website
  3. María Eugenia Yagüe: Borja Thyssen: 'Por favor, por favor ... No me hagáis photos. Para Hacienda, vivo en Andorra '. Article in El Mundo newspaper on April 25, 2015.
  4. ^ Els actes d'inauguració del Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra tindran lloc els 16, 21, i 23 de març Communication from the government of Andorra on the opening of the museum of March 1, 2017
  5. ^ Composition of the board of trustees on the website of the Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra
  6. Guille Cervera, el sobrino repostero de Tita que dirigirá el próximo Thyssen. Article in the February 2017 monthly supplement of El Mundo magazine .
  7. Silvia Taulés: El sobrino pastelero de Carmen Thyssen, nuevo director de su museo andorrano. Article in El Español magazine on January 20, 2017
  8. Carmen Thyssen abre nueva sucursal de su colección en Andorra. Article in the Spanish newspaper ABC on January 20, 2017.
  9. El Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra rep. 20,000 visitants el primer any de funcionament. Article in the online edition of Bondia AD on December 15, 2017.
  10. "Allées et venues". Gauguin i quatre segles de camins en l'art. Retrieved December 13, 2019 (Catalan).
  11. "FEMINA FEMINAE. Les Muses i la Col·leccionista. De Piazzetta a Delaunay." Retrieved December 13, 2019 (Catalan).

Coordinates: 42 ° 30 ′ 31.6 ″  N , 1 ° 32 ′ 31.6 ″  E