Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon
Heinrich Thyssen, since 1907, Baron Heinrich Thyssen- Bornemisza de Kászon ( born October 31, 1875 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, † June 26, 1947 in Lugano) was a Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector with German origin and the youngest son of August Thyssen family of entrepreneurs Thyssen.
Life
His parents divorced in 1885, Heinrich Thyssen acquired at an early age a large proportion of the run from his father Thyssen Group. He studied chemistry, physics and mineralogy, and his doctorate in 1900 at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg.
In 1906 he married Margit Bornemisza Baroness de Kászon et Impérfalva ( 1887-1971 ), was a Hungarian citizen, settled adopt by his father and then bore the name of Baron Thyssen- Bornemisza de Kászon. Hungarian citizenship he retained until his death, yet he acted in the 1920s and 1930s as a German national.
In 1912 he joined the Management Board of the coal mining company union a German emperor.
After the end of World War I. Thyssen moved to The Hague and steered from there the Thyssen's foreign companies. At the creation of the United Steel Works 1926 he moved though a on whose board, but brought his share of the family inheritance in the August Thyssensche companies both at home and abroad GmbH and not in the United Steelworks one. He built around the tube factory in Dusseldorf rice timber and the now defunct steel plant in Dusseldorf - Oberbilk, which belonged to the group since 1906, its own corporate group.
Thyssen was a major shareholder of the Bremer Vulkan and had the early thirties, 80 percent of the volcano - stocks.
In 1932 Thyssen moved to Switzerland and made in Lugano as an art collector a name. In 1939, he appointed the Director-General Dr. Wilhelm Roelen as his Plenipotentiary of the Thyssen group in Germany.
His marriage was divorced in 1933. You come from a total of four children: Stephen (1907-1981), Margaret (1911-1989), Gabrielle (* 1916) and Hans Heinrich ( 1921-2002 ).
Art Collection
At least since 1911 Heinrich Thyssen built up an art collection that was kept at Castle Rohoncz, the family castle of his wife, and was shown publicly for the first time in 1930 at the Neue Pinakothek. In the 1930s, the collection was transferred to the acquired Thyssen Villa Favorita in Lugano Castagnola at and was there from 1936 to 1939 to the public ( and again in 1949 ). At Thyssen's death in 1947 the collection included 525 works of art and was then divided among his four children. Of them, Hans Heinrich prompted the continuation of the collection at the Villa Favorita, the expansion of the collection and the subsequent founding of the Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza in Madrid.
The Art Collection August Thyssen included outstanding works of old masters with an emphasis on the old German and early Netherlandish painting. Important works in the collection (now part of the Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza ) are the Members of Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Vittore Carpaccio, Sebastiano del Piombo, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder. , Hans Baldung Hans Holbein, Titian, Caravaggio, Rubens, van Dyck, Frans Hals, Jan Steen and Jacob van Ruisdael.