City and canton are putting pressure on the Kunsthaus
Mayor Corine Mauch and Councilor Jacqueline Fehr call for better research into the Bührle art collection. They want to make subsidies dependent on this.
–Emil G. Bührle’s art collection has been on view in the extension of the Kunsthaus for a month.
Photo: Anna-Tia Buss
Now it’s going very quickly: after months of argumenton and massive public pressure The city and canton of Zurich raise specific demands for the art collection of the arms dealer Emil G. Bührle, which has been on view in the Kunsthaus extension for a month.
Dhe city councilors and government councilors Corine Mauch and Jacqueline Fehr demand that provenance research be evaluated independently. So you want to have it checked whether the origin of the pictures has been properly clarified by the Bührle Foundation. And they want to see the historical context illuminated further. This could include research into forced labor.
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