Portrait of Esther Grether

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

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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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