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The Foundation E. G. Bührle Collection (Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle) is an art museum in Zürich, Switzerland. It was established by the Bührle family to make Emil Georg Bührle's collection of European sculptures and paintings available to the public. The museum is in a villa adjoining Bührle's former home. In 2021 many works were exhibited on 20-year loan in almost a whole floor of the new extension of the Kunsthaus Zürich museum. There was controversy due to suspicions that many works were looted from Jews by Nazi Germany.[1]

Foundation E. G. Bührle Collection

Established	1960
Location	Zürich, Switzerland
Type	Art museum
Director	Lukas Gloor
Website	http://www.buehrle.ch

Collections

Although the collection includes a number of Old Masters and Modern art including works by Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso,[2] it comprises mainly French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism paintings by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat, Alfred Sisley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh and others.

Gallery

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  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, A Girl Reading, 1845–1850
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  Édouard Manet, The Swallows, 1873
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  Édouard Manet, The Suicide, 1877–1881
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  Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers, 1880
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  Paul Signac, Two Milliners in the Rue du Caire, 1885–1886
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  Paul Gauguin, The Embroiderer (La Brodeuse), 1880
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  Vincent van Gogh, The Sower (after Millet), 1888
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  Paul Cézanne, Self-Portrait with Palette, 1890
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  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Messaline, 1900–1901
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  Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining Nude, 1916

Art theft

On 10 February 2008, four paintings worth CHF 180 million ($162.5 million) were stolen from the museum.[3][4] The four paintings were: Cézanne's Boy in the Red Vest (1894/1895), Degas's Count Lepic and His Daughters (1871), Monet's Poppies near Vétheuil (1879) and Van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branches (1890).

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  Paul Cézanne, The Boy in the Red Vest, oil on canvas, 1894/1895
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  Edgar Degas, Count Lepic and His Daughters, 1871
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  Claude Monet, Poppies near Vétheuil, 1879
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  Vincent van Gogh, Blossoming Chestnut Branches, 1890

All four paintings were eventually recovered. Monet's Poppies near Vétheuil and Van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branches were recovered on February 18, 2008 in a car parked in the parking lot of a nearby hospital.[5] Cézanne's Boy in the Red Vest was recovered in Serbia on April 12, 2012. Count Lepic and His Daughters was recovered in April 2012 with slight damage.[6] In 2012, three men were arrested in connection with the theft.[7]

The "Bührle Black Book" controversy

In a 2015 publication entitled The Bührle Black Book,[8] Thomas Buomberger and Guido Magnaguagno called for an investigation into Nazi era provenance gaps in a number of paintings in the Bührle collection.[9][10][11] The Foundation had been working with provenance researcher Laurie A Stein since 2002 to update the ownership history of the collection and to publish it online.[12]

References

Further reading

• Gloor, Lukas (ed.): Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle: Katalog I–III. Silvana 2004–2005, ISBN 88-87582-95-5 (1), ISBN 88-87582-88-2 (2), ISBN 88-87582-73-4 (3).
• Gloor, Lukas: Bührle collection : Impressionist masterpieces from the E.G.Buehrle collection, Zurich (Switzerland). Tokyo: The National Art Center (2018). OCLC 1089128887.
• Emil Maurer: Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle, Zürich. Bern 1992 ISBN 3-85782-526-X
• Katalog Washington D.C.: The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and other Master Paintings from the E. G. Bührle Collection. Zürich 1990 ISBN 0-8478-1215-4

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bührle collection.

• Official webpage in German and in English
• Complete list of artists in the Bührle Foundation's collection

На других языках

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[de] Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle

Die Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle wurde von den Erben des Unternehmers Emil Georg Bührle eingerichtet, um wesentliche Teile seiner Kunstsammlung der Öffentlichkeit zu zeigen. Von 1960 bis 2015 konnten diese Werke in einem eigenen Haus in Zürich besichtigt werden, seit dem 9. Oktober 2021 werden sie im Kunsthaus Zürich in einem Neubau von David Chipperfield ausgestellt.

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- [en] Foundation E. G. Bührle

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[fr] Fondation et Collection Emil G. Bührle

La Fondation et Collection Emil G. Bührle est une collection privée d'art à Zurich. La fondation a été créée en 1960 par la famille du collectionneur d'art Emil Georg Bührle (1890-1956) après le décès de celui-ci.

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[ru] Собрание фонда Эмиля Бюрле

Собрание фонда Эмиля Бю́рле (нем. Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle) — частный художественный музей в Цюрихе.

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