Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

At the beginning of the XX century there was a massive overflow of " old masters " from private collections in Europe in the United States . In the 1920s, the largest German industrialist, Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza , began to redeem masterpieces from American collections, whose owners had financial difficulties in connection with the Great Depression , and return them to Europe.

From the collection of Otto Can, the baron acquired the first full-length portrait of a man in the history of Western art (“ Portrait of a Knight ” by Vittore Carpaccio ), from the collection of Pierpont Morgan - the famous portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni . He bought works of art from other German industrialists and from his own relatives. In general, the senior baron preferred painting of the 19th and 20th centuries. The main part of the meeting was located away from tourist routes, in the former villa of Prince Friedrich Leopold on the shore of Lake Lugansk .

In 1986, Baron Hans Thyssen-Bornemisza announced that he was looking for a new home for his art collection, which at that time was considered the largest private collection in the world. It went to Spain in a stubborn competition with other countries. Decisive was the word of the wife of Baron Thyssen, the former "Miss Spain", Carmen Servers . First, the art gallery came to Madrid for a period of nine and a half years. In 1993, with the assistance of Baroness Thyssen, the Spanish government acquired the collection for a symbolic amount of 44,100 million pesetas (232 million pounds).

Currently, the museum’s collection covers eight centuries of European painting, not claiming to be complete in its coverage, but rather outlining its main directions. One of the central places in the collection is occupied by early European masters: a significant collection of trecento and quattrocento (XIV and XV centuries), works of Italian artists - Duccio and his contemporaries, works of early Flemish, Dutch and German masters like Jan van Eyck , Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein .

The collection includes well-known artists of the Renaissance and Baroque , including Piero della Francesca , Giambattista Pittoni , Raphael , Titian , Rubens . A serious section of the museum’s exposition consists of paintings by impressionists and post-impressionists - Claude Monet , Auguste Renoir , Vincent van Gogh , as well as masterpieces of 20th century painting - the Cubist work of Picasso and the late work of Pete Mondrian .

It also turns out to be a very peculiar collection of 19th-century North American painting, almost unknown in Europe and occupying four rooms in the museum.

• Old masters from the Thyssen Museum
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  Duccio

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  Ucello

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  Vittore Carpaccio

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  Giovanni Bellini

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  Domenico Ghirlandaio

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  Rogier van der Weyden

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  Hans Memling

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  Jan van Eyck

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  Robert Kampen

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  Hans Holbein

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  Correggio

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  Raphael

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  Bronzino

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  Titian

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  Tintoretto

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  Pittoni

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  Albrecht Durer

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  Caravaggio

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  Rubens

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  Rembrandt

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  Franz Hals

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• Jose Maria Goicoechea. MUSEUM OF TISSEN-BORNEMISA. A walk through the history of art in the center of Madrid. - Magazine "Tretyakov Gallery", # 4 2015 (49)