Foundation E.G. Bührle
| Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection | |
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| Established | 1960 |
| Location | Zürich, Switzerland |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | Lukas Gloor |
| Website | http://www.buehrle.ch |
The Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection (Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle) was established by the Bührle family in Zürich, Switzerland to bring to public viewing Emil Georg Bührle's important collection of European sculptures and paintings. The Foundation's art museum is in a Zurich villa adjoining Bührle's former home.
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[edit] 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 [1], 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.
[edit] Gallery
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: A Girl Reading, 1845-1850
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Edouard Manet:
The Swallows
Oil on Canvas, 1873 -
Edouard Manet:
The Suicide, 1877-1881 -
Paul Signac:
Two Milliners in the Rue du Caire, 1885-86 -
Vincent van Gogh:
The Sower (after Millet), 1888 -
Paul Cézanne:
Self-Portrait with Palette, 1890 -
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Messaline, 1900-1901
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Amedeo Modigliani:
Reclining Nude, 1916
[edit] Art theft
On 10 February 2008, four paintings worth CHF 180 million ($162.5 million) were stolen.[1] [2] The four paintings are Cézanne's The Boy in the Red Vest (1894/1895), Degas' 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) -
Edgar Degas:
Count Lepic and His Daughters (1871) -
Claude Monet:
Poppies near Vétheuil -
Vincent van Gogh:
Blossoming Chestnut Branches (1890)
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Two of the four paintings, Monet's Poppies near Vétheuil and Van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branches, were recovered on February 18, 2008 in a car parked at a nearby hospital's parking lot.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Interpol: Four masterpieces stolen from Zurich museum (ref.: 2008/5583)
- ^ Harnischfeger, Uta and Nicholas Kulish. At Zurich Museum, a Theft of 4 Masterworks. The New York Times. February 12 2008. Retrieved 2011-4-21.
- ^ 2 Stolen Paintings Found by Swiss
[edit] Literature
- 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).
- 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
[edit] External links
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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
