Museo Carmen Thyssen

Anglada-Camarasa. Arabesque and seduction

The exhibition Anglada-Camarasa. Arabesque and seduction, curated by Silvia Pizarro and Lourdes Moreno, will focus on the depiction of women and the female form in the work of Anglada-Camarasa (Barcelona, 1871 – Port de Pollença, 1959) through a carefully selected group of works, mos...

Modern and seductive. Women in the ABC Collection (1900−1936)

During the first decades of the twentieth century, the illustrations in the weekly magazine Blanco y Negro and the daily newspaper ABC – two of the periodic publications with the largest circulation at the time – conveyed the image of a new, active and modern woman. ...

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...