EG Bührle Collection Foundation

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House of the Bührle Collection in Zurich (2007)

The EG Bührle Collection Foundation was set up by the heirs of the entrepreneur Emil Georg Bührle in order to show essential parts of his art collection to the public. From 1960 to 2015, these works could be viewed in their own house in Zurich , and from 2020 they will be exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zurich .

collection

Around 180 works from the extensive private art collection of the Zurich industrialist and sole shareholder of the Oerlikon-Bührle Holding , Emil Georg Bührle (1890–1956), were transferred to a foundation by his heirs in 1960 and have since been in a villa next to Bührle's former home at Zollikerstrasse 172 shown in Zurich. Bührle's daughter Hortense Anda-Bührle was president of the foundation until her death in 2014 . Her successor is Christian Bührle, a grandson of Emil Georg Bührle. Lukas Gloor has been the director of the foundation since 2002 .

The exhibits include:

The move of the Bührle Collection to the planned extension of the Kunsthaus Zurich is planned for 2020 after the Zurich electorate voted in November 2012 that the building, which is to be financed with around 40 percent tax money, can be built. The corresponding design by architect David Chipperfield from 2010 provides twelve percent of the usable area of ​​the new building for the Bührle Collection.

Suspected looted art

Regarding the Monet picture Mohnfeld bei Vétheuil , which has been in the Bührle Collection since 1941 , there is a suspicion, because of its provenance, that it was the subject of a possibly questionable deal between Bührle and the heir of the Jewish businessman Max Emden, who emigrated to South America, in 1940/41 . A number of other pictures have an unclear provenance; they could also be looted art or refugee goods. Provenance researcher Laurie A. Stein has been working for the foundation since 2002.

Art theft

On February 10, 2008, four paintings with a total value of 180 million francs were looted in an armed art theft. These are the pictures The Boy with the Red Vest by Paul Cézanne , Blossoming Chestnut Twigs by Vincent van Gogh , Poppy Field near Vétheuil by Claude Monet and Ludovic Lepic and his daughters by Edgar Degas , as curator Lukas Gloor announced. The robbery is described as "probably the greatest art theft in Europe".

On February 18, 2008, the police found two pictures (those of van Gogh and Monet) in a car with stolen license plates in the parking lot of the Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic and were able to return them to the museum. The other two pictures have since disappeared. It is unclear whether a ransom was paid for the pictures. On April 11, 2012, Cézanne's boy with the red vest was found in Belgrade . On April 27, 2012, the Zurich public prosecutor announced that Degas' picture Ludovic Lepic and his daughters had been returned to Zurich several months earlier.

gallery

  • Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Reading girl in red leotard

  • Edgar Degas:
    Portrait of Count Lepic and his daughters

  • Claude Monet:
    Poppy field near Vétheuil

  • Georges Seurat:
    Woman with a Parasol

  • Vincent van Gogh:
    The Sower

  • Paul Cézanne:
    Self-Portrait with a Palette

  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Messalina

  • Amedeo Modigliani:
    Young woman

  • Paul Cézanne:
    The Boy in the Red Vest
    oil on canvas (1894/95)

  • Edouard Manet:
    The Swallows
    Oil on canvas (1873)

  • Edouard Manet:
    The suicide

literature

  • Emil G. Bührle Collection. Exhibition "French Masters from Delacroix to Matisse" for the 25th anniversary of the Lucerne International Music Festival, August 11th - October 27th, 1963 . Kunstmuseum Luzern: Catalog. Text by Arthur Kauffmann . Lucerne: Union Printing House, 1963
  • Catalog Washington DC: The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and other Master Paintings from the EG Bührle Collection. Zurich 1990, ISBN 0-8478-1215-4 .
  • Lukas Gloor : Foundation EG Bührle Collection: Catalog I – III. Silvana 2004-2005, ISBN 88-87582-95-5 (1), ISBN 88-87582-88-2 (2), ISBN 88-87582-73-4 (3).
  • Emil Maurer: Foundation EG Bührle Collection. (= Swiss Art Guide , Volume 526/527). Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-85782-526-X .
  • Thomas Buomberger, Guido Magnaguagno (eds.): Black Book Bührle. Looted art for the Kunsthaus Zürich? Rotpunkt, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85869-664-9 .

Web links

Commons : Sammlung EG Bührle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Breidecker: Ars for Mars. The magnificent Bührle Collection is on display in Zurich - its origin leaves questions unanswered. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from March 1, 2010.
  2. ↑ Jvo Cukas: Kunsthaus extension: people from Zurich say yes to the extension. In: Tages-Anzeiger Online / Newsnet. November 26, 2012, accessed April 15, 2013 .
  3. ^ Kunsthaus extension on the website of the Kunsthaus Zürich, accessed on April 11, 2012.
  4. ↑ swissinfo.org, February 27, 2008: Monet's “poppy field” with a legacy.
  5. ↑ Thomas Buomberger, Guido Magnaguagno (ed.): Black Book Bührle. Looted art for the Kunsthaus Zürich? Rotpunkt, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85869-664-9 ; Guido Magnaguagno: Contaminated sites in the new building. In: Tages-Anzeiger of August 21, 2015, accessed on August 30, 2015.
  6. ↑ http://www.buehrle.ch/provenance.php?lang=de
  7. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger , February 11, 2008: Probably the largest art theft in Europe. ( Memento from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger , February 19, 2008: Pictures discovered in a parking lot.
  9. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger , February 19, 2008: Riddles about stolen images that have been found.
  10. ^ A stolen Cézanne tracked down in Belgrade. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung online, accessed on April 12, 2012.
  11. ↑ All four stolen Bührle pictures back. NZZ of April 27, 2012.

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