The Carmen Thyssen Museum (Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga) is an art museum in the Spanish city

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. The main focus of the museum is 19th-century

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painting, predominantly Andalusian, based on the collection of

Carmen Cervera María del Carmen Rosario Soledad Cervera y Fernández de la Guerra, Dowager Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (german: link=no, María del Carmen Rosario Soledad Freifrau von Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon; born 23 April 1943) ...

, fifth wife of

Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza Hans Heinrich August Gábor, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon (13 April 1921 – 27 April 2002), an industrialist and art collector, was a Dutch-born Swiss citizen with a Hungarian title and heir to a German fortune, a long-time resident of Spa ...

. Since 1992 the Thyssen family's art collection has been on display at the

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum (in Spanish, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (), named after its founder), or simply the Thyssen, is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Prado Museum on one of the city's main boulevards. I ...

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. However, Carmen Thyssen has been an art collector in her own right since the 1980s, and her personal collection is shown separately. In 1999, she agreed to display many items from her collection in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum for a period of twelve years. Meanwhile, a home for her collection was sought in Málaga. This museum, a conversion of a sixteenth-century building, opened to the public on 24 March 2011.

Building

The purpose-built museum was developed by RG Arquitectos Asociados around the 16th century

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Palacio de Villalón, which was partly reconstructed on this occasion. The exhibition spaces, three rooms for the permanent collection and two for temporary exhibitions, were newly built next to the palace, which houses the Old Masters collection. Overall, the museum covers 7,147 square metres, of which 5,185 can be used to display art.

Highlights of the collection

* Niccolò Frangipane, ''Penitent'', 1574 *

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, ''Saint Marina'', c. 1640-1650 * Alfred Dehodencq, ''A Confraternity in Procession along Calle Génova'', 1851 *

Marià Fortuny Marià Josep Maria Bernat Fortuny i Marsal (; es, Mariano José María Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal; June 11, 1838 – November 21, 1874), known more simply as Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny, was the leading Spanish painter of his day, with an ...

, ''Bullfight. Wounded Picador'', c. 1867 * Manuel Ussel de Guimbarda, ''

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Sellers in Seville'', 1881 *Guillermo Gómez Gil, ''The Reding Fountain; By the Fountain'', c.1880-1885 *

Raimundo Madrazo Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (24 July 1841 – 15 September 1920) was a Spanish painter from the Madrazo family of artists who worked in the Realistic style, although his later work shows signs of Rococo and Japanese influence. He was known pr ...

, ''Leaving the Masked Ball'', c. 1885 * Martín Rico Ortega, ''A Summer's Day on the Seine'', 1870-1875 * Emilio Sánchez-Perrier, ''Winter in Andalusia'', c. 1880 *

Ignacio Zuloaga Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (July 26, 1870October 31, 1945) was a Spanish painter, born in Eibar (Guipuzcoa), near the monastery of Loyola. Family He was the son of metalworker and damascener Plácido Zuloaga and grandson of the organizer and d ...

, ''Bullfight at

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'', 1899 *

Darío de Regoyos Darío de Regoyos y Valdés (November 1, 1857 – October 29, 1913) was a Spanish painter. He was notable for contributing to "the renewal of modern Spanish painting". A student of Carlos de Haes at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Ferna ...

, ''The Concha, Night-time'', 1906 *

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, ''The Bath (Seville)'', 1908 *

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, ''Julia'', 1915 *

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, ''La Buenaventura'', 1922

Gallery

File:Zurbaran santa marina.jpg, ''Saint Marina'' by

, 1640-1650 File:Fortuny Paisatge nord-africà.jpg, ''North African Landscape'' by

, 1862 File:Martín Rico Ortega A Summer’s Day on the Seine.jpg, ''A Summer's Day on the Seine'' by Martín Rico Ortega, 1870-1875 File:Raimundo Madrazo - Salida del baile de máscaras.jpg, ''Leaving the Masked Ball'' by

, c. 1885 File:Cecilio Pla Ladies in the Garden.jpg, ''Ladies in the Garden'' by Cecilio Plá y Gallardo, c. 1910 File:Manuel García Rodríguez - First Atrium of Santa Paula Convent, Seville - c 1920-25 - Museo CarmenThyssen Málaga.jpg, ''First Atrium of Santa Paula Convent, Seville'' by

Manuel García y Rodríguez Manuel García y Rodríguez (1863, Seville - 6 May 1925, Seville) was a Spanish costumbrista and landscape painter, who also painted Orientalist scenes. Biography At first, he studied music but ultimately dedicated himself to his love of pai ...

, c 1920-25 File:Manuel García y Rodríguez - Interior Courtyard, Seville - c 1920 - Museo CarmenThyssen Málaga.jpg, ''Interior Courtyard, Seville'' by

, c 1920 File:Jardines del Alcázar, Sevilla.jpg, ''The Garden of Alcázar Seville'' by

, c 1920

Notes

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