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Esther Grether

Switzerland 90 years old

Overview

Source of Wealth
Art collection
Residence
Children
2

Assets

  • Swatch Group AG
    72,000 shares @ -
    -
    UHR-CH
  • Swatch Group AG-Reg
    5,659,000 shares @ -
    -
    UHRN-CH

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.

About

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.