Museo Carmen Thyssen

Painting Light. Catalan Masters from the Carmen Thyssen Collection

A keen collector of works full of colour and emotion which captivate viewers with their beauty, Baroness Carmen Thyssen seems to have been concerned with painting light when she assembled her extraordinary holdings of Catalan masters.

Sun-drenched landscapes and melancholic dus...

Artists’ Posters. From Toulouse-Lautrec to Jeff Koons.

Within the new concept of modern art that was formulated at the end of the 19th century, the difference and hierarchy between the various artistic genres began to become less distinct. Graphic art consequently became the subject of enormous interest and experimentation on the part of painters suc...

Memory of the Streets

In this exhibition three women photographers explore the streets of Barcelona in three consecutive periods of key importance in Spain’s recent history. Margaret Michaelis, who arrived from Berlin in 1933, came across the modern city of the 1930s then in the midst of transformation and growt...