Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza art_and_culture

Located on the Art Walk, its permanent collection traces the history of European painting from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Italian Primitives, German Renaissance, 19th century American painting, Impressionism, German Expressionism and Russian Constructivism are the schools and movements most widely represented in the museum. Given the variety and richness of its holdings, with more than 1,000 works of art, it is advisable to begin the visit with the part of the collection that interests us most. 💡Curiosities First loaned for a period of nine and a half years and acquired in 1993 by the Spanish State, the museum's collection is the result of the collecting zeal of the late Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza and his father, Baron Heinrich. Baron Heinrich started the collection in the 1920s and managed to gather around 525 paintings. Upon his death in 1947, the works were dispersed among his heirs, and his son, Baron Hans Heinrich Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, set about putting it together again by buying the works from his relatives.