Museo Carmen Thyssen

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...

Toulouse-Lautrec and the circus

In 1899, during a short period of convalescence in a sanatorium in Neuilly, on the outskirts of Paris, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864−1901), the great portraitist of fin-de-siècle Parisian bohemia, produced a series of 39 drawings on one of his favourite themes: circus performances ...

El Greco-Rusiñol

This small tribute the Museo Carmen Thyssen is paying to El Greco is linked to Rusiñol. It features one of the paintings that were acquired by Rusiñol, Saint Peter in Tears, along with a copy by Zuloaga, a faithful devotee of the Cretan. Another work by Rusiñol copies what wa...