Paul Gauguin’s painting “The rising road” will remain exhibited at the Kunsthaus of Zurich after an agreement

An agreement was concluded with “the legal heirs of Richard Semmel”, former owner of the work, said in a press release the Buhrle foundation, the current owner of the table. For example,

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The table The rising road De Paul Gauguin will be able to continue to be exhibited at the Kunsthaus of Zurich. Furthermore, a prestigious Swiss museum, after an agreement concluded with the legal heirs of the former owner, a businessman who fled Nazi persecutions.

The agreement was concluded with “The legal heirs paul gauguin’s painting “the rising of Richard Semmel“. Moreover, said on Tuesday June 25 in a press release the Buhrle Foundation, the current owner of the work. The table. from 1884,”will remain in the Emil Buhrle collection and will be able to continue to be exhibited at Kunsthaus Zurich. The parties agreed to keep the details of the confidential agreement“Explains the Foundation.

The famous Museum of Fine Arts Zurich had been criticized during the opening in 2021 of an imposing new building intended to house the impressive collection of dozens of works from the industrialist. a naturalized Swiss naturalized, Emil Buhrle, which made a fortune during the Second World War.

In total. before his death in 1956, the merchant of arms had constituted a vast fund of some 600 pieces with works by Manet, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Sisley, Cézanne, Rembrandt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Braque, Van Gogh or Gauguin. Some had previously been robbed to Jews or paul gauguin’s painting “the rising sold urgently by their owners to flee the Nazis.

To turn the page on the controversy. the Kunsthaus of Zurich had called on experts responsible for tracing the course of certain works and had presented in 2023 an exhibition turned towards transparency. In June 2024. the museum had also announced that it would withdraw from one of its collections five paintings of great masters, following new international directives on art spoiled by the Nazis, of which The rising road of Paul Gauguin.

According to the Buhrle Foundation. Emil Buhrle had acquired The rising road In March 1937 during an auction at the Moos gallery in Geneva. “”Richard Semmel. a German businessman of Jewish origin and art collector, had put the table on sale for the first time during sales of works of art in June 1933 in Amsterdam“, Before Geneva, she says.

“At that time, Mr. Semmel was in the paul gauguin’s painting “the rising Netherlands, fleeing Nazi persecution with his wife Clara. In 1939. the couple took refuge, via Santiago du Chile, in New York, where Richard Semmel died in 1950, widower, impoverished and childless“, Details the Foundation.