Foundation EG Bührle
Fundación EG Bührle
Foundation EG Bührle (Zollikerstrasse 172, Zürich) — The art collection of Emil Georg Bührle (1890-1956), a Zürich industrialist, is among the most important 20th-century private collections of European art. French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism constitute the core of the collection. Around these works is an ensemble of 19th-century French art that paved the way for Impressionism or developed alongside it.
In 1960, the collector’s family placed a representative selection of about 200 pictures and sculptures in a foundation and opened it to the public. The Foundation’s museum is housed in a villa adjoining Emil Bührle’s former home, which Bührle had used to store part of his collection during his lifetime. Visit its website for more info: www.buehrle.ch