The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, in Paseo del Arte, includes works collected by Baron Thyssen and his wife Carmen Cervera. They highlight the most significant artists and European art movements of the last 700 years as well as modern American art.
The Thyssen is known for its superb temporary exhibitions, but the great draw is its permanent collection, which is divided floor-by-floor into artistic movements.
The different sections are 13th-17th-century works covering Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces; 17th-century Dutch artists, German Expressionists and French Impressionists; and a whole range of 20th-century movements from Cubism to Surrealism and Pop Art. Old Masters and modern greats on display include work by Rubens, Ribera, Goya, Monet and Picasso among others.
The collection exists in Spain thanks to German-Hungarian industrialist Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza's penchant for art. Taking over a family collection, he expanded it so much it that it soon became too big for its home in the Swiss city of Lugano. With the help of his Spanish wife Carmen Cervera, and against the wishes of the Swiss and German governments, the collection was moved to Spain initially on loan, but eventually took up permanent residence in its current location, Madrid's Palacio de Villahermosa.
The different sections are 13th-17th-century works covering Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces; 17th-century Dutch artists, German Expressionists and French Impressionists; and a whole range of 20th-century movements from Cubism to Surrealism and Pop Art. Old Masters and modern greats on display include work by Rubens, Ribera, Goya, Monet and Picasso among others.
The collection exists in Spain thanks to German-Hungarian industrialist Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza's penchant for art. Taking over a family collection, he expanded it so much it that it soon became too big for its home in the Swiss city of Lugano. With the help of his Spanish wife Carmen Cervera, and against the wishes of the Swiss and German governments, the collection was moved to Spain initially on loan, but eventually took up permanent residence in its current location, Madrid's Palacio de Villahermosa.
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