It was the German Hungarian entrepreneur and art collector Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (1875 – 1947), who started in the 1920s his collection, which was subsequently continued by his son Baron 'Heini', Hans Henrik Ágost Gábor Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921 – 2002). Through influence of his fifth and last wife, the Spanish and former Miss Spain, Carmen (Tita) Cervera, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum was founded and opened in 1992, whereas a part of his collection (715 works) were sold a year later to the Spanish government for $350 million, to be hanged in the museum. 

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