Kunsthaus Zürich presents the E.G. Bührle Collection in a new form
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The controversial Bührle Collection is being presented in a new exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich. Under the name “Zwischenstand. Sammlung Bührle”, the new exhibition is being positioned as something in between a retrospective and an outlook.
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After the much-discussed exhibition “A future without a past. Bührle Collection: Art, Context, War and Conflict” was on display from 2023 to 2025, a “new, thematically focused presentation” of the Bührle Collection is to be conceived for 2027/2028.
Until then, almost all of the works from the permanent loan of the E.G. Bührle Collection Foundation will be shown in a salon hanging from April 10. The paintings will be hung particularly close together. According to a statement issued by the Kunsthaus on Thursday, this is intended to illustrate the scope and diversity of the collection.
Among the works on display are Le Semeur au soleil couchant by Vincent van Gogh and Irène Cahen d’Anvers by Auguste Renoire. The interim exhibition focuses on three aspects: The art historical context, the role of Jewish collectors in modernism and the context of the collection and its relationship to the Kunsthaus.
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The collection was built up by the arms dealer Emil Bührle (1890-1956). It has been a political issue in Zurich for years. In 2024, an investigation came to the conclusion that the provenance research carried out to date was inadequate. Many of the works were owned by Jews during the Nazi era. As of April 1, the Kunsthaus Zürich will resume provenance research into the Bührle collection, it announced. The City of Zurich provided the funds for this in February.
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