The Carmen Thyssen Museum (Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga) is an art museum in the Spanish city Málaga. The main focus of the museum is 19th-century Spanish 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. 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. ...

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), an ...

. 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 Baroque 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 Niccolò Frangipane (active 1565–1597) was an Italian artist of the late Renaissance period. Life Frangipane was born in Padua. He executed a number of sacred subjects, but was more successful in mythological scenes, particularly the legends o ...

, ''Penitent'', 1574 *

Francisco de Zurbarán Francisco de Zurbarán ( , ; baptized 7 November 1598 – 27 August 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname "Spanis ...

, ''Saint Marina'', c. 1640-1650 *

Alfred Dehodencq Alfred Dehodencq (23 April 1822 – 2 January 1882; born Edmé-Alexis-Alfred Dehodencq) is a French Orientalist painter known for his vivid oil paintings of Andalusian and North African scenes. Life Dehodencq was born in Paris on 23 April 1822. ...

, ''A Confraternity in Procession along Calle Génova'', 1851 * Marià Fortuny, ''Bullfight. Wounded Picador'', c. 1867 *

Manuel Ussel de Guimbarda Manuel Ussel de Guimbarda y Malibrán (26 November 1833 – 9 May 1907) was a Spanish painter. Ussel is generally seen as "Wssel"; the way he spelled it when signing his works. Biography He was born in Cuba, where his father, a career mil ...

, '' Rosquillo 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 Emilio may refer to: * Emilio Navaira, a Mexican-American singer often called "Emilio" * Emilio Piazza Memorial School, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State * Emilio (given name) * ''Emilio'' (film), a 2008 film by Kim Jorgensen See also * Emílio ...

, ''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 ...

, ''Bullfight at Éibar'', 1899 * Darío de Regoyos, ''The Concha, Night-time'', 1906 * Francisco Iturrino, ''The Bath (Seville)'', 1908 *

Ramon Casas i Carbó Ramon Casas i Carbó (; 4 January 1866 – 29 February 1932) was a Catalan artist. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and ...

, ''Julia'', 1915 * Julio Romero de Torres, ''La Buenaventura'', 1922

Gallery

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

, 1640-1650 File:Fortuny Paisatge nord-africà.jpg, ''North African Landscape'' by Marià Fortuny, 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, c 1920-25 File:Manuel García y Rodríguez - Interior Courtyard, Seville - c 1920 - Museo CarmenThyssen Málaga.jpg, ''Interior Courtyard, Seville'' by Manuel García y Rodríguez, c 1920 File:Jardines del Alcázar, Sevilla.jpg, ''The Garden of Alcázar Seville'' by Manuel García y Rodríguez, c 1920

Notes

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