Германиялық-швейцариялық өнер коллекционері және кәсіпкер Ханс Генрих Тыссен-Борнемиза

Dutch born Swiss industrialist and art collector

Hans Heinrich August Gábor Thyssen Bornemisza de Kászon, Baron Thyssen (13 April 1921 – 27 April 2002), was a Dutch born Swiss industrialist and art collector. A member of the Thyssen family, he had a Hungarian title and was heir to a German fortune. He was born to a German father and an American mother. Daniel M. Frost and John Kerry are members of his maternal family. His paternal grandfather was August Thyssen. Thyssen lived in Spain for most of his adult life. His fifth and last wife, Carmen "Tita" Cervera, is a former Miss Spain.

Thyssen Bornemisza was born in Scheveningen, Netherlands, the son of Heinrich, Baron Thyssen Bornemisza de Kászon de Impérfalva (1875–1947) and his first wife, Margit, Baroness Bornemisza de Kászon (1887–1971). The Thyssen family's fortune was built upon a steel and armaments empire: Heinrich Thyssen had abandoned Germany as a young man and settled in Hungary in 1905. In Budapest, Heinrich married the daughter of the king's Hungarian chamberlain Gábor Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (1859 1915) who, having no sons of his own, adopted Heinrich, the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary extending his father in law's baronial title in the Hungarian nobility to Heinrich and his male line descendants in 1907. Baroness Margit Bornemisza's grandparents were the Baron Albert Bornemisza de Kászon (1832 1899) and the Countess Gabriella Kornis de Gönczruszka (1834 1902).

With his father's death, Thyssen Bornemisza inherited TBG (Thyssen Bornemisza Group) Holdings N. V., a business empire that included oil, naval construction (Bremer Vulkan) and large parts of Rotterdam harbor, as well as a major art collection with hundreds of paintings of European masters from between the 14th and the 19th centuries. Thyssen Bornemisza was also an avid horse lover. From then on, his business was limited to art. He bought more old masters, from Duccio to Francisco Goya; and fifteen years after his father's death, he bought his first piece of modern art, a watercolor painting by Emil Nolde dated from between 1931 and 1935, starting the entry of 20th century's paintings in the collection (including Edgar Degas, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, and Fernand Léger). His preference however went to German Expressionism, and he soon became a real expert in painting.

As part of an attempt to dissolve a trust, thereby acquiring control of her third husband's assets, Tita cast doubt on the paternity of Baron Georg Heinrich Thyssen Bornemisza, alleging that his father was actually Count Iván Batthyány de Német Ujvár (1910–1985), the husband of Thyssen's sister, Countess Margit Batthyány (1911 1989). However, a settlement was reached between the parties before the baron's death, which brought to a "peaceable" conclusion the wrangling over control of the vast Thyssen art collection, which is to remain in Spain, Hans Heinrich having been the founder of the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. One of the paintings in the museum, Rue Saint Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain by Camille Pissarro, belonged to a Jewish couple who were forced to give it to the German government in exchange for an exit visa to the United Kingdom shortly after Kristallnacht in 1939. By 2015, their descendants had filed a lawsuit against the museum, on the grounds that it was stolen by the Nazis. and had two children: Sacha Thyssen Bornemisza de Kászon on 31 January 2008 and Eric Thyssen Bornemisza de Kászon on 5 August 2010. His widow has also adopted two baby girls, twins, called Guadalupe Sabina and María del Carmen in July 2006.

Hans Henrich died in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain. He is buried in the family burial vault of Schloss Landsberg in the Ruhr valley near Essen, Germany.