150 masterpieces reproduced in full page and full color, eachaccompanied by its technical sheet and commentary on the work. Withtexts by the Museum's curators: Paloma Alarcó, María Eugenia Alonso,Mar Borobia, Dolores Delgado, Juan Ángel López-Manzanares, ClaraMarcellán and Marta Ruiz del Árbol. In 2022 it will be thirty yearssince the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza opened in Madrid inOctober 1992. But the origins of the Thyssen-Bornemisza collectiondate back to the early years of the 20th century, when the Germanindustrialist August Thyssen (1842- 1926) acquired seven Rodin marbles for his Landsberg castle. It was Heinrich (1875-1947), son of August, turned Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, who after his father's death in 1926 began to acquire what are still the main Old Master paintings andsculptures in this collection. On Heinrich's death in 1947, his sonand principal heir, Hans Heinrich (1921-2002), first endeavored torebuild his father's collection by buying back some works they hadinherited from his brothers, and later expanded it with newacquisitions, also starting since 1961 a collection of
