four impressionist artworks were stolen at gunpoint yesterday from the E.G. Buehrle Collection in Zurich. three men in dark clothes and hoods (one speaking German with a Slavic accent) loaded Van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branches, Degas' Count Lepic and his Daughters, "Monet's Poppies near Vetheuil, and Cezanne's Boy in a Red Vest into a white car and sped off into the void. Buehrle, one of Switzerland's richest men before his death in 1956, was the German-born owner of Oerlikon Machine Tool Works and made his fortune selling a 20mm anti-aircraft gun during WWII. The blood soaked cash was used to build one of Europe's greatest private art collections. After the war at least 13 of the items in his collection were found to be on Douglas Cooper's list of Nazi looted art. charming....
hey I have been trying to find info on Onkel Tom's Huette Reitverein but they don't have a website that I can find easily.
Do you know when I can get a "Probestunde"? I want to ride Sunday afternoons
Thanks
Posted by: Gina | 13 February 2008 at 18:30