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The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid is an important art gallery and cultural center in the Spanish capital. It is located along the Paseo del Prado, just a short walk from the Prado Museum.
The permanent collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum traces the history of European painting from the Middle Ages to the late 20th century. It presents an incredible variety and richness of paintings, with over 1,000 works of art.
The Spanish government acquired in 1993 the entire private family collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza.
The collection includes works ranging from Italian Renaissance artists to 19th-century American painting, Impressionism, German Expressionism, and early 20th-century avant-garde movements.
The art collection began forming in The Hague around 1928 as the private collection of the first Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Incredibly, in just ten years, from 1928 to 1938, the Thyssens gathered most of the major old master paintings from Dürer to Caravaggio.
At his death in 1947, the first Baron had collected 525 works.
The second Baron, Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921-2002), continued the family’s artistic activities, collecting old European masters but especially Impressionist and modern paintings.
The Thyssen-Bornemisza collection was perhaps among the most important private collections in the world until its sale to Spain in 1993.
Today, it highlights strengths in areas where other Spanish museums are lacking.
Landscape and genre painting, themes particularly prominent in the 17th-century Dutch school and 19th-century North American painting, can be fully appreciated in the museum’s halls.
The same themes are revisited by Romantic painters such as Friedrich, Impressionists Monet and Degas, and Post-Impressionists Gauguin and Van Gogh, all represented in the museum’s collection.
The final rooms comprehensively showcase 20th-century avant-garde movements: Fauvism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Art, and Pop Art.
