Foundation E.G. Bührle

The Foundation 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.

Collections

Although the collection includes a number of Old Masters and Modern art, it is made up mainly of 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.

Art theft

On 10 February, 2008, four paintings worth CHF 180 million ($162.5 million) were stolen. [Kantonspolizei Zürich: [http://www.kapo.zh.ch/internet/ds/kapo/de/fahndungen/sachfahndung/kunst/1202081s.html Zürich: Bewaffneter Raub in Museum] de icon] [Interpol: [http://www.interpol.com/Public/News/2008/woa20080211.asp Four masterpieces stolen from Zurich museum] (ref.: 2008/5583)] [http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-art-theft.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin $160 Million in Art Stolen in Zurich] The New York Times, By REUTERS, Published: February 11, 2008] It is believed to be the most worth of art work stolen in history.citeweb |url=http://www.asahi.com/international/update/0220/TKY200802190412.html |title=史上最高額の盗難絵画2点を発見 |publisher=The Asahi Shimbun Company |accessdate=2008-02-19 |language=Japanese] The four paintings are Cézanne's "The Boy in the Red Vest" (1894/1895) [ [http://www.buehrle.ch/works_detail.php?lang=en&id_pic=55 Foundation E.G. Bührle: The Boy in the Red Vest] ] , Degas' "Count Lepic and His Daughters" (1871) [ [http://www.buehrle.ch/works_detail.php?lang=en&id_pic=46 Foundation E.G. Bührle: Count Lepic and His Daughters] ] , Monet's "Poppies near Vétheuil" (1879) [ [http://www.buehrle.ch/works_detail.php?lang=en&id_pic=70 Foundation E.G. Bührle: Poppies near Vétheuil] ] and Van Gogh's "Blossoming Chestnut Branches" (1890) [ [http://www.buehrle.ch/works_detail.php?lang=en&id_pic=89 Foundation E.G. Bührle: Blossoming Chestnut Branches] ] .

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. [ [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hRDbcIWkDAJuntYwgLB0roJ43VVQD8UTF28G0 2 Stolen Paintings Found by Swiss] ]

Gallery

References

External links

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* [http://www.buehrle.ch/ Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle]

* [http://www.buehrle.ch/index.php?lang=en Foundation E.G. Bührle website]
* [http://www.buehrle.ch/painters.php?lang=en Complete list of artists in the Bührle museum]