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Updated Saturday, February 24, 2024-00:29
Anniversary The 80th birthday of Tita Cervera, who is not a marchioness because of her baron's blunders and because for the Queen she was "a courtesan"
Future Carmen Thyssen Cervera: nannies, ADE and Swarovski... This is how Tita's successor was raised
Guillermo
Cervera
,
Guille
, (53) can be seen at museum events a few steps from the baroness, but
always in the shadows,
his "comfort zone", hence this
cover
of the
Thyssen-Cervera
family is a virgin for pink press.
Impeccably suited, his
yuppie
appearance conceals a
"rock and roll guy",
as he defines himself and the tattoos on his hand that read "bake" reveal it.
And the thing about "he was a cook before he was a friar" fits him, because before becoming a trusted man of his aunt Carmen, who has entrusted him with
her most precious treasures
(her private collection of paintings, of which he is currently general curator ), and the
supervision of his twins
Carmen and Sabina when he travels, developed many facets.
He was a professional
diver
, lived in Hawaii and
played drums
in the group V Columna, which in the 90s achieved fame with its LP
Lágrimas y bourbon
and opened for Mecano and Los Secretos.
He finally culminated in the kitchen as the
chef
in charge of pastry at
El Celler de Toni in Andorra,
becoming a finalist in the 2013 World Chocolate Masters competition, the world championship for pastry chefs.
To know more
Documentary film.
Tita Cervera on her first husband, Lex Barker: "I had never seen a body as perfect as his"
Editor: LUIS FERNANDO ROMO
Tita Cervera on her first husband, Lex Barker: "I had never seen a body as perfect as his"
Anniversary.
2.4 billion and squares, this is how the heirs of Baron Thyssen live 20 years later, including the son "of the error"
Editor: MARINA PINA
2.4 billion and squares, this is how the heirs of Baron Thyssen live 20 years later, including the son "of the error"
But
his destiny was art,
it had been written since his childhood, since he was the only son of Guillermo,
the only brother
of Carmen Cervera, a quite cosmopolitan character who studied engineering in Germany and married a French woman.
From this union Guille was born in Barcelona,
her godparents being Tita,
who always loved him like a son, and her first husband, the actor
Lex Barker
,
the famous
Tarzan
.
He studied at the La Salle
school
and at the Santa Clara
boarding school
, but at the end of the 80s his father decided to settle in
Andorra
, where he became a
thriving businessman linked,
among other businesses, to the Orfund holding company.
Aunt and nephew, in an image from 2009.GTRES
At this stage, Tita, who after
being widowed by Barker
, lived through turbulent years due to her disastrous union with
Spartaco Santoni
and her failed courtship with
Manolo Segura,
from whom
her son Borja was born,
had married the multimillionaire art collector,
Baron Thyssen , in 1985.
.
The couple, who lived in Villa Favorita, in
Lugano
(Switzerland), occasionally visited Sispony, an Andorran place where Guillermo Cervera lived, with whom
the baron maintained a cordial relationship.
When Guille was a teenager, she spent holidays with her parents in Villa Favorita, where the baron's
painting collection
was exhibited , the most important in the world in private hands, which today hangs in the Thyssen Museum in Madrid.
In the mansion's dining room
they had lunch in front of jewels
such as Gauguin's
Mata Mua
or Picasso's
Harlequin
, and the baron showed Guille
the museum behind closed doors
, explaining the paintings in detail.
He also introduced him to
masters like Balthus
and even took him to exhibitions abroad, one of them in Siberia.
Fascinated by this environment, he decided
to study museology
at the prestigious Saint George School, in England, where for two years he trained in museum management, which he completed with courses at other schools.
Carmen Cervera, Borja Thyssen and Blanca Cuesta.GTRES
At the turn of the century his life took a turn:
his father died, he married
the director of the Tobacco Museum in Andorra and
his daughter was born,
whose godmother was Tita and today she is a twenty-year-old who grew up with Carmen and Sabina, born in 2006 through surrogacy.
Guillermo settled
permanently in Andorra
in 2003 and initially worked as
manager of a
winter sports club, while advising his aunt in her art gallery.
Tita, who was widowed by the baron in 2002,
felt alone,
especially after Carmen and Sabina were born, since the
bad relationship with her daughter-in-law,
Blanca, had distanced her son Borja from her, so her nephew became an
important bastion.
In 2016 he emerged from anonymity when he was named
patron of the Thyssen museum in Malaga.
But a year before, Tita had already supported the idea of turning Guillermo into her trusted man, when
she and her twins
settled in the Principality in 2015, where she established her tax residence and
bought two homes,
one for her and the other for Borja. , in the exclusive Can Diumenge urbanization.
When the Carmen Thyssen museum opened in 2017 in the old Valira hotel in Andorra, he promoted his nephew as
artistic director,
a position he carried out successfully, since in 2018 UNESCO designated it the best European museum.
This surely led to his
promotion to general curator
of the very important Carmen Thyssen collection, distributed in the museums of Madrid, Malaga, Andorra and, soon, Sant Feliu de Guixols.
In addition to his decisive role in the pictorial field, Guillermo has provided
support in the upbringing of the twins,
since residing in Andorra he has been in charge of supervising them on the baroness's trips outside the Principality.
Especially now that Borja, whose relationship with his mother is calmer, has left Andorra to
move to Gstaad
with Blanca and her five children.