Van Gogh, Monet, Courbet and Léger in Malaga

From October 4th till April 20th in Thyssen Museum in Málaga

The exhibition Courbet, Van Gogh, Monet, Léger. From naturalist Landscape to the Avant-gardes in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, organised in collaboration with Obra Social ”la Caixa”, focuses on the role of landscape painting in the renewal of modern art through the quest undertaken by artists for greater freedom of execution and direct contact with nature. At the same time, it reveals the interesting connections that arose between the principal Spanish painters and the most important artistic movements that simultaneously emerged in Europe.
Through a selection of more than forty works from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, the exhibition offers a survey of landscape painting from the mid-19th century to 1950, relating the most important Spanish landscape painters such as Carlos de Haes, Eliseu Meifrèn and Santiago Rusiñol to the principal trends in international, particularly French art with the aim of seeking out affinities and influences.

Claude Monet, Low Tide in Varengeville, 1882

In comparison to genre painters, whose work was governed by strict rules, landscape painters achieved a greater degree of freedom by establishing a direct dialogue with nature while also trying out new techniques that incorporated scientific discoveries of the day. Thus for late 19th-century artists, painting could not be confined to the imitation of reality: beauty was the result of an internal order and their conception of a painting as a flat plane covered with colours anticipated the contribution of the 20th-century Avant-gardes. Around 1930 and following a period when landscape was to some extent eclipsed, the Surrealists gave it a new meaning as the representation of the subconscious.
Overall, the exhibition allows visitors to appreciate how landscape painting evolved over almost a century, from naturalism to the markedly introspective character of Avant-garde landscapes, while also taking into account the transition from post-Romanticism to Symbolism, the interest in light characteristic of Impressionism and the return to classicism.
Information from: Website Museum Carmen Thyssen M

Entrance fee for this exhibition: 4 €
Opening hours. from tuesday till sunday from 10:00 to 20:00
More information: Website Carmen Thyssen Museum

The Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga

This year a new museum was opened in march in  Malaga. It's the Carmen Thyssen museum located in the Villalón Palace a mid-16th century building with a beautiful collonaded patio in the Malaga's old city centre.

There are more than 200 works on display, all belonging to the Thyssen family, private collectionists. The exhibition starts off with a series of paintings by old artists, including "Santa Marina" by Zurbarán. Then it continues with a section dedicated to Romantic landscapes and costumbrismo, depicting customs and manners, with works by Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Manuel Barrón and the Domínguez Bécquer family. Marià Fortuny opens another section of preciosista painting and naturalist landscapes, and then there are Spanish works from the late 19th century, by Joaquín Sorolla, Anglada i Camarasa, Ignacio Zuloaga and Julio Romero de Torres. The museum also organises periodical temporary exhibitions.
The exhibition gives you a good insight in typical Spanish scenes like bullfights, patios, processions and spanish landscapes. The Baroness herself described the collection, at the museum's inauguration, as "the most essential part of Spanish history. You'll feel what is Andalucia."
However, there are some works of foreign painters.

The museum opens from tuesday till sunday, from 10:00 till 20:00.

Entrance Fees
Main museum only: 6 euros (over 12 years old);
3.50 euros reduced fee for pensioners, unemployed, students aged under 26, and familias numerosas (large families, ie with three or more children).
Temporary exhibitions: 4 euros, 2.50 reduced fee (see above).
Joint ticket (main museum and temporary exhibition): 8 euros; 4.50 reduced fee (see above).
Students and Málaga city residents: 4.50 euros.


Location
Calle Compañia 10, 29008 Malaga. Tel 902 303131
Near Avenida de la Rosaleda

More information you can find on the official website of the Carmen Thyssen Museum,