Museo Carmen Thyssen

Pintura liberada

Some thirty works by more than twenty artists make up this diverse and colourful mosaic of the figurative painting that became a symbol of the new modernity ushered in by Spain’s transition to democracy in the 1980s.

For the main players in this productive period for Spanish conte...

Max Ernst: natural history

A key figure in the development of art in the 20th century, the German painter, sculptor and graphic artist Max Ernst (Brühl, 1891−Paris, 1976) set out to visualise a unique and fascinating dream world in his works. The Natural History (Histoire naturelle) series, one...

The Collection grows. Recent acquisitions

Eighteen works of different styles and periods swell the Museo Carmen Thyssen Collection with themes as important as Orientalism, the portrait or the nude. This presentation reaffirms the character of the Permanent Collection and proves that this is a living, constantly growing museum. As regards...