Fondation de l'Hermitage exhibits masterpieces from the Bührle Collection
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Fondation de l'Hermitage exhibits masterpieces from the Bührle Collection
Curator Lukas Gloor gestures next to the painting "Reclining Nude" by Amedeo Modigliani displayed during the exhibition "Masterpieces of the Buehrle Collection" at the Hermitage Foundation on April 5, 2017 in Lausanne. The masterpieces of the Buehrle Collection are displayed for seven months in Lausanne, hosting a section devoted to painting spoiled by the Nazis. Visitors will be able to admire works by Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley and Van Gogh that Emil Buehrle, a Swiss arms dealer who made a fortune during the Second World War, collected for 20 years, from 1936 until his death in 1956. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP.



LAUSANNE.- For an exceptional duration of seven months, the Fondation de l’Hermitage is showing the Impressionist and post-Impressionist treasures of one of the world’s most prestigious private collections. The Bührle collection features masterpieces by key artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Monet’s Poppies near Vétheuil (c. 1879), Cézanne’s Boy in a Red Waistcoat (c. 1888) and Van Gogh’s Sower with Setting Sun (1888).

In revealing the outstanding works of the E. G. Bührle Foundation the Fondation de l’Hermitage is continuing an exploration of the great private Swiss collections that it has pursued for some twenty years, notably with exhibitions of the Weinberg (1997), Jean Planque (2001), Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser (2011) and Jean Bonna (2015) collections.

With this new chapter the Hermitage offers visitors the opportunity to immerse themselves in one of the most important collections of 19th and early 20th-century art. Acquired largely between 1951 and 1956 by industrialist Emil Georg Bührle (1890-1956), the works of the E. G. Bührle Foundation in Zurich are of extraordinary quality. They are being exhibited exclusively at the Hermitage, in the intimate setting of a 19th century residence similar to that of their collector, and will then be shown in Japan before returning to the new extension to the Kunsthaus, Zurich, in 2020.

Central to the exhibition, as to the E. G. Bührle collection itself, are French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, with masterpieces by Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Sisley, Monet and Renoir, and by the founding fathers of modernism, Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh. As a prelude to this fascinating journey, two rooms explore the role of these paintings in the history of European art. One focuses on portraits, showing the place of the Impressionists within the genre’s long tradition extending from Hals to Ingres, Corot, Courbet, Fantin-Latour and ultimately Renoir. The other illustrates the influence of Romanticism and realism on the emergence of modern painting with a display of paintings by Delacroix and Daumier. This dazzling journey ends at the dawn of the 20th century, with key works by the Nabis (Bonnard, Vuillard), Fauves (Braque, Derain, Vlaminck) and Paris School (Modigliani, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec).

The exhibition also sheds light on the history of this amazing collection itself, a reflection of the tastes of its mid-20th century owner. There is a room displaying archive documents and the results of nearly twelve years of in-depth research conducted by the E. G. Bührle Foundation, revealing the sometimes complex histories of some of these masterpieces.










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