E.G. Bührle Collection of French Impressionism Plans to Move To Kunsthaus Zürich
ZURICH.- Today, 60 years after it first saw the
light of day, Emil Bührle’s is still one of the leading collections of
20th-century art. It focuses on French Impressionist painting, which has always
enjoyed vivid interest in Switzerland and is also represented in the Kunsthaus
Zürich’s own collection. At the Bührle Collection’s current home,
however, in Zurich’s Zollikerstrasse, the private collection had been seen
annually by no more than 10,000 visitors before even those numbers dwindled to
just a few hundred following the notorious robbery in February of 2008.
The Kunsthaus, on the other hand, welcomes between 200,000 and 300,000
guests each year, eager to view its examples of French painting and of the
schools that preceded and followed it.