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He was born in Scheveningen, Netherlands, the son of Heinrich Thyssen (1875–1947) and his first wife, Margit, Baroness Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (1887–1971).
In late medieval depictions, the Doctors, often now carrying or consulting large volumes, may be given specifically Jewish features or dress, and are sometimes overtly anti-Semitic caricatures, like some of the figures in Albrecht Dürer's version in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.
He was the beginner of the Thyssen fortune and the father of August Thyssen and Joseph Thyssen, both of whom joined his bank.
Afterwards he worked for Thyssen Industries and went to 24 Friesen street, Laar, a district of Duisburg.
After graduation, he joined Thyssen, then took over the running of the family engineering firm in Freiburg after the death of his father.
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Saur went back to Thyssen in 1929 and was director of the August Thyssen-Hütte.
During the last twenty years, Genillard has also been quite active in industry, notably with ties – since 1970 – to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Group, an industrial employing some 20.000 people worldwide at the time, having led the parent company, TBG Holdings N.V. as its Chief Executive from 1977 to 1983, and having served as Deputy Chairman of its Supervisory Board between 1971 and 1994.
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, or in Spanish Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (named after its founder), is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Prado Museum at one of city's main boulevards.
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Other highlights include works by the most famous Renaissance and Baroque painters, including Antonello da Messina (Portrait of a Man), Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo, Rembrandt and Frans Hals and portraits by Domenico Ghirlandaio and Vittore Carpaccio.
He has curated a number of major exhibitions, including "Memling's Portraits", which showed in Bruges, at the Frick Collection in New York and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.
Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum | Thyssen | Joseph Thyssen | Fritz Thyssen | August Thyssen | Thyssen family | ''Portrait of a man'', 1534, now at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum | ''Hercules at the Court of Omphale'', 1537, now at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum | Greta Thyssen | Friedrich Thyssen |
Among her circle of friends in those days we can cite: María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco (Ex Duchess of Cadiz), Adolfo Suárez (former Spanish president), Carmen Cervera (Baroness Tita Thyssen - Bornemisza), Miguel Bosé (singer), Rocío Durcal (singer), Donna Hightower (singer) or Salvador Dalí (painter) to name a few.
1) Baroness Henriette Luisa Bentinck (b. in London, 1949–2010), the daughter of Baron Adolph Bentinck and Baroness Gabrielle Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon.
TH-495 was a infantry combat vehicle being proposed by German-based Thyssen-Henschel for NATO countries, but it was primarily being pitched to the Canadian Forces and the then government of Brian Mulroney in the 1990s.
Fritz Thyssen resigned from the Council of State after November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht, was arrested in 1940, and spent the remainder of the war in a sanatorium and in concentration camps.