Bührle’s troubled art collection is squashed together in new Zurich show
The Zurich Museum of Fine Arts (Kunsthaus Zürich) has opened its third exhibition since 2021 of the controversial Emil Bührle art collection, presenting 205 works on long-term loan from the E. G. Bührle Collection Foundation. The show displays masterpieces by Manet, Monet, van Gogh, Cézanne, and Renoir in a crowded, label-free installation, with ownership histories accessible only via a digital console. Many of the paintings once belonged to Jewish collectors persecuted by the Nazis, including Manet's 'La Sultane', which was owned by Max Silberberg, deported and murdered at Auschwitz. The foundation reached a confidential settlement with Silberberg's heirs last year over the painting's sale under Nazi persecution.