Wealth - Art Market - Cultural Strategies

The workshop sessions and keynote lecture are open to researchers and the general public. Please register by email (matthieu.leimgruber@uzh.ch) for attending the sessions. No advance registration is required to attend the keynote lecture. Programme WEDNESDAY 27 APRIL UZH, KOL G-317, KARL SCHMID STRASSE 4 13:30 Welcome and introductory remarks- Matthieu Leimgruber (UZH) 13:45 The European art markets during World War II - Kim Oosterlinck (Université Libre de Bruxelles) 14:30 New research on the Swiss art market: the Galerie Aktuaryus in Zurich - Elisabeth Eggimann Gerber (Zürich) 15:15 Coffee break 15:45 The Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft: financial elites and the Swiss art market - Stéphanie Ginalski & Emilie Wiedmer (UNIL, Lausanne) 16:30 Art, patronage and political lobbying: the Emil Bührle case - Matthieu Leimgruber (UZH) KEYNOTE UZH, KOL G-317, Karl Schmid Strasse 4 18:00 L’économie de l’enrichissement et la forme «collection» Arnaud Esquerre & Luc Boltanski (EHESS, Paris) THURSDAY 28 APRIL UZH, HAH-F-1, HÄLDELIWEG 2 9:00 The art of doing wealth: the Thyssen case - Simone Derix (Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg) 9:45 Art is capital: social uses and interests of art collecting - Franz Schultheis (Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen) 10:30 Coffee break 11:00 Round up 12:00 End of the workshop