Jeanne Bucher Jaeger

The gallery JEANNE BUCHER JAEGER is today one the few Modern and Contemporary gallery in Europe in activity for more than 90 years. Characterised by its expertise in European Modern and Contemporary Art of the XXth century, founded by Jeanne Bucher in 1925, the gallery has remained in the same family for three generations and is now a European institution that has shown Modern Masters of the XXth century, such as the Abstract avant-garde artists, Cubists and Surrealists of the Pre-War era, exhibited by Jeanne Bucher between 1925 and 1946. Her successor Jean-François Jaeger took over the direction of the gallery in 1947 and exhibited major Post-War Abstract European and American artists, New Realists and Figurative painters of the 70s, Urban and Environmental sculptors of the 80s as well as Eastern artists now recognised as National Treasures in their own countries. Jean-François Jaeger still presides the gallery today, with 70 years of experience. Véronique Jaeger, great grand-daughter of Jeanne Bucher and daughter of Jean-François Jaeger is today the majority shareholder and the general director of the gallery.
The gallery holds a collection of works that cover the field of European Art of the XXth century, inscribing itself for the past 15 years in the art of the 21st century. Its participation is essential for the Catalogues Raisonnés of the 20th century. Modern masters promoted continuously : Vieira da Silva, Nicolas de Staël, Bissière, Arpad Szenes, Hans Reichel, Aguayo… as well as forming expertice comitees for these artists.
For the past 90 years, the gallery has placed an innumerable number of works amongst major international institutions and collections in the world.
The gallery also pursues its promotion of contemporary artists : Michael Biberstein, Miguel Branco, Zarina Hashmi, Rui Moreira, Hanns Schimansky, Susumu Shingu, Paul Wallach and Yang Jiechang, who have been exhibited since 2006 or 2008, with the organisation of exhibitions at the gallery and in major institutions, as well as the production of their works for specific projects.