Rank #1674
Esther Grether
Net worth $2.3B
Art collection · Switzerland
- Born
- Jan 01, 1936
- Age
- 90
- Source
- Art collection
- Residence
- Basel
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Esther Grether owns one of the world's most valuable and significant collections of 20th-century art, consisting of more than 600 pieces.
- The collection includes works by Picasso, Cezanne, Dali and one of Francis Bacon's triptychs.
- She has been a major shareholder in Swatch and is a former board member of the watchmaker.
- She inherited Doetsch Grether from her late husband Hans Grether in 1975. Hans' father Oscar cofounded the personal care product company in 1904.
- Grether's children Hans Christoph and Susanne are involved in the family office, with Hans Christoph running the family holding they both received.
- Esther Grether holds her art collection in a converted printing factory, where she also lives.
- Doetsch Grether makes Tiger Balm, the classic pain-relieving ointment that traces its roots to a Chinese herbalist in the 1870s.
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