“Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, Patron and art collector”
Royal Fine Arts Academy of San Fernando

Monday, 25th February of 2019

Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza

On February 25, 2019, within the framework of the Ibero-American Patronage Awards, a conversation with Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza was held at the Royal Fine Arts Academy of San Fernando. The Baroness shared her experience as an art collector and she talked about the arrival of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum to Madrid, and her activity as a patron.

Carmen Cervera, Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza is currently one of the most important art collectors and an important art patron in an international scale. Vicepresident of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum and Academic of the Royal Fine Arts Academy of Cadiz, she has been awarded with the “Gran Cruz de Isabel la Católica” and the Fine Arts Golden Medal.