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Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Buhrle Review
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Stiftung Sammlung E. G. Bührle 
- Address: Zollikerstr. 172, Kreis 8, Zürich
- Phone: 044/4220086
- www.buehrle.ch
- Category: Museums/Galleries
- Location: Kreis 8
Fodor's Review:
A stunning array of Cézannes, Manets, Monets, and Degases make this eyeknocking collection one of the best art museums in Europe. Amazingly, it was all put together in the space of a single decade. During the 1950s, Zürich industrialist E.G. Bührle purchased the finest offerings from the world's most prestigious art dealers, winding up with a collection studded with legendary Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, including Cézanne's Self Portrait with Palette, Renoir's Little Irene, and Degas's Little Dancer. The museum also encompasses religious sculptures (with great holdings of medieval Pietà wooden sculptures) as well as Spanish and Italian paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries and gorgeous landscapes by Dutch masters like Meindert Hobbema and Salomon van Ruysdael. But the core of the collection remains French 19th-century and all the great names are here, from Courbet and Manet to Picasso, with forays into the Nabis, Fauve, and Cubist schools. Housed in an 1886 villa, there is little period splendor on view but nothing could outshine these masterpieces. Take Tram 11 from Bellevue, then Bus 77 from Hegibachplatz to the Altenhofstrasse stop.
- Cost: 9 SF
- Open: Tues., Wed., Fri., and Sun. 2-5
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