Museo Carmen Thyssen

Real(isms). New Figurative Trends in Spanish Art from 1918 to 1936

This exhibition takes an extensive look at a chronologically short but creatively intense period in which the first truly determined drive towards artistic renewal (and even the avant-garde) and a break with nineteenth-century art emerged in Spain in the form of a realist figurative art.

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Latent Modernity

Through more than sixty paintings, mostly from the Telefónica Collection, this exhibition tells the story of an episode in Spanish art that was largely shaped by the historical period to which it belongs. The hopes aroused by the signs of an emerging avant-garde before the Civil War (1936ꟷ...

Fortuny the printmaker

Following in the wake of other great painters and printmakers such as Rembrandt and Goya, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838−1874), an unquestionable master of Spanish nineteenth-century painting, put his virtuosic skills to exploring the expressive possibilities of printmaking – chiefly ...