Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection

The paintings and sculptures gathered by Emil Georg Bührle form the core of this collection of European art. The Bührle family, including his son Dieter and daughter Hortense Anda-Bührle, set it up as a foundation in 1960 to make it available to the public. Its local name, Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle, may appear on signs.

The foundation's own museum is in a villa next to Bührle's former home. Since 2021, many of its works have been shown on a 20-year loan across almost an entire floor of the new extension of the Kunsthaus Zürich. The collection is listed as a Swiss cultural property of national significance.

The collection has drawn controversy over suspicions that many of its works were looted from Jews by Nazi Germany. For decades the foundation was run by Dieter Bührle, who in 1970 received an eight-month suspended prison sentence for supplying weapons to the apartheid regime in South Africa.