Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is an art museum in the Palacio de Villahermosa in Madrid, not far from the Prado. Exhibits include paintings, which have been compiled by Heinrich Thyssen and especially by his son Hans Heinrich Thyssen- Bornemisza de Kászon.

The museum was opened in the presence of King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sophia on October 8, 1992. The main part of the art collection was acquired by Spain in 1993. The museum is organized on the basis of artistic periods. Therefore A tour through the history of art beginning with early Italian art to the major works of experimental avant-garde and the Pop Art

Since 2004, a growing of the museum houses the Collection Carmen Thyssen -Bornemisza, which has collated the last wife of Hans Heinrich Thyssen- Bornemisza since the mid- 1980s, and which complements the original collection with mainly Spanish paintings from the 17th century to modern times.

Selection of exhibited paintings

Canaletto: Piazza San Marco

Derick Baegert: The main man under the cross

Vittore Carpaccio: Portrait of a Knight

Lucas Cranach the Elder: . Dormant Quellnymphe

Albrecht Dürer: The twelve- year-old Jesus among the Doctors

Jan Fyt: The hunt prey

Paul Gauguin: Coming and Going

Jan van Goyen: Schloß Montfort

Nicolaes Maes: The naughty drummer

Frans Hals: Portrait of a young man

Frans Hals: Portrait of a young woman

Peter Paul Rubens: Venus and Cupid with a mirror

Vincent van Gogh: watermill of Gennep