Museo Carmen Thyssen

Imogen Cunningham. Essences

The American photographer Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was born in Portland, Oregon, into a humble farming family. Her father Isaac Cunningham, a freethinker and voracious reader, instilled a love of art and nature in Imogen, the eldest of six siblings.

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Perversity. Femmes Fatales in Modern Art (1880–1950)

From the eternal feminine to the new woman, this exhibition surveys more than half a century of images featuring women in a period – from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s – when their representation in art underwent a paradigm shift as a reflection of the social situation of the time. ...

Paradises and Landscapes in the Carmen Thyssen Collection. From Brueghel to Gauguin

This exhibition, curated by Lourdes Moreno, will present a fascinating survey of landscape painting from the 17th to the mid-20th century through major works in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. The exhibition will analyse the depiction of nature as a poetic vision of paradise, frequently...