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1992 - 2012, 20 años

Berthe Morisot

Organized by Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza with the collaboration of Musée Marmottan Paris

15 November 2011 to 12 February 2012

Author:
Berthe Morisot
Title:
At the ball (detail)
Date:
1875
Technical:
Oil on canvas
Measures:
62 x 52 cm
Location:

Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.

Chagall

Organised by Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and Caja Madrid Foundation

From 14 February to 20 May 2012

Author:
Marc Chagall
Title:
The Blue Circus (Le cirque bleu)
Date:
1950-52
Technical:
Oil on linen canvas
Measures:
232.5 x 175.8 cm.
Location:
Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle. Dation 1988.
© VEGAP, Madrid 2012. - Chagall ®

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Mondrian, De Stijl and Dutch artistic tradition

New displays of the collections

From 7 February to 6 May 2012

Collection

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The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum offers visitors an overview of art from the 13th century to the late 20th century. In the nearly one thousand works on display, visitors can contemplate the major periods and pictorial schools of western art such as the Renaissance, Mannerism, the Baroque, Rococo, Romanticism and the art of the 19th and 20th centuries up to Pop Art. The museum also features works from some movements not represented in state-owned collections, such as Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism and the experimental avant-garde movements of the early 20th century. In addition, it boasts an important collection of 19th-century American painting not found in any other European museum institutions.

Aside from its panoramic perspective, the collection housed in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum also offers us a glimpse of the tastes and preferences of the two persons principally responsible for its existence, Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1875-1947) and Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921-2002). Well versed in the Central European artistic tradition, both men showed a particular predilection for portraits and landscapes. This is evident in the works of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, in contrast with the predominance of religious and historical paintings found in other Spanish museums. In 2004, the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection was brought to the Museum, adding over two hundred works that round out the representation of styles and genres already present in the Permanent Collection.

© 2009 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Paseo del Prado 8, 28014 Madrid, España