Hortense Anda-Bührle

Hortense Anda-Bührle (born May 18, 1926 in Zurich ; † May 16, 2014 ) was a Swiss entrepreneur , art collector and patron .

Life

Hortense Bührle was born in 1926 as the daughter of the German industrialist Emil Georg Bührle (1890–1956) and his wife Wilhelmine Charlotte, née Schalk, in Zurich. The father had settled with his family in Switzerland after he had taken over the management of the machine tool factory Oerlikon in 1923. Her older brother was Dieter Bührle (1921–2012). In 1937 the family received citizenship of the city of Zurich and thus Swiss citizenship.

Hortense Bührle initially received her school education at the high alpine daughter institute Ftan and then continued it at St. George's School in Clarens . After her father's death in 1956, the then 30-year-old became a co-heir and major shareholder of the Bührle Group . She subsequently held board positions at Oerlikon-Bührle Holding AG, the shoe manufacturer Bally , the family-owned subsidiary IHAG Holding and the private bank IHAG Zurich . She also appeared as a shareholder in the Italian pasta manufacturer Barilla and as the owner of the Hotel Storchen Zurich and the Hotel Castello del Sole in Ascona .

In 1964, Hortense Bührle married the pianist Géza Anda . From this marriage the son Gratian Anda, born in 1969, emerged. After the death of Géza Anda, Hortense Anda-Bührle founded the Géza-Anda Foundation in 1978 in memory of her husband and has since been president. This foundation, which is dedicated to promoting young pianists, organizes the triennial Concours Géza Anda .

Together with her brother Dieter, she inherited her father's important art collection. In 1960 the children transferred three fifths of this collection to the EG Bührle Collection , of which Hortense Anda-Bührle had been President since that time. Since then, the foundation's works of art have been accessible to the public in a villa adjacent to their parents' house and are due to move into the planned extension of the Kunsthaus Zürich from 2017 . The two fifths of the art collection that remained in private ownership were repeatedly loaned out to exhibitions by the heirs. Hortense Anda-Bührle was also a member of the board of trustees of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz . In addition, she was a long-standing member of the board of trustees of the Goethe Foundation for Art and Science in Zurich and of the foundation board of the Kartause Ittingen foundation .

literature

Foundation EG Bührle Collection (Ed.): Masterpieces from the Emil Georg Bührle Collection . Artemis, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7608-1029-2 .
Dietmar Grieser : In your favor: encounters with artist widows . Langen-Müller, Munich 1985, pp. 122-136, ISBN 3-7844-2068-0 .

Web links

Ueli Müller: Anda [-Bührle], Hortense. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Documents by and about Bührle, Hortense in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
Art patron Hortense Anda-Bührle is dead. Obituary in Der Bund on May 19, 2014
IHAG Privatbank Zürich AG : Obituary Hortense Anda-Bührle. In: moneycab.com from May 19, 2014
Constantin Seibt : The once richest woman in Switzerland is dead. Obituary in: Tages-Anzeiger from May 21, 2014
Iso Camartin : Exemplary in the service of music and art. ( Memento from May 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from May 22, 2014

Individual evidence

^ Ueli Müller: Bührle, Dieter. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
^ Entrepreneur Dieter Bührle is dead. ( Memento from November 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Swiss television from November 12, 2012
↑ Deborah Orr: Barilla's patrimony in Forbes Magazine November 25, 2002.
↑ Description of the Hotel zum Storchen ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 494 kB) @1@ 2
^ Géza Anda Foundation
^ Board of Trustees of the Art History Institute in Florence. ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 12, 2012 @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Anda-Bührle, Hortense
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bührle, Hortense
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	May 16, 2014

[1] Ueli Müller: Bührle, Dieter. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[dieter-2] Entrepreneur Dieter Bührle is dead. ( Memento from November 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Swiss television from November 12, 2012

[3] Deborah Orr: Barilla's patrimony in Forbes Magazine November 25, 2002.

[4] Description of the Hotel zum Storchen ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 494 kB) @1@ 2

[5] Géza Anda Foundation

[6] Board of Trustees of the Art History Institute in Florence. ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 12, 2012 @1@ 2