death_date death_place birth_place image_size birth_date known_for residence article_title name
26 november 1956 zürich , switzerland pforzheim , germany 100 px 31 august 1890 industrialist and art collector zürich emil georg bührle
 emil georg bührle
emil georg bührle

emil georg bührle -lrb- 31 august 1890 in pforzheim -- november 26 , 1956 in zürich -rrb- was an industrialist , art collector and patron .
his art collection is now housed in the foundation e.g. bührle .
after studying philosophy , literature , history and art history in freiburg , bührle went to munich .
from 1914 to 1919 he was a german cavalry officer in the imperial army .
in 1919 he joined the `` magdeburg werkzeugmaschinenfabrik '' and rose up to become a legal representative .
the `` magdeburger werkzeugmaschinenfabrik '' bought the `` werkzeugmaschinenfabrik oerlikon '' in 1923 , and bührle became the ceo the following year .
in the same year he was moved to zurich .
in 1929 , bührle became the majority shareholder of the `` werkzeugmaschinenfabrik oerlikon '' and in 1936 he became the sole owner of the company -lrb- later the `` oerlikon-bührle holding ag '' -rrb- .
also in 1936 , bührle obtained swiss citizenship .
from his 1920 marriage with charlotte schalk came two children .
the following foundations are attributed to emil bührle : `` emil bührle foundation for the swiss literature '' -lrb- 1943 -rrb- , `` goethe foundation for art and science '' -lrb- 1944 -rrb- and the `` foundation of the cultivation of the kunsthaus zurich '' -lrb- 1954 -rrb- .
