Daros, a cultural enterprise

While working for the Earth Summit, I had sustained two grievous personal losses: my father and my brother Alexander had died within a few months of each other. Alexander left me his art collection. Attempting to follow in his steps and continue collecting paintings and sculptures from renowned artists such as Giacometti, Richter, de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko, Twombly, and Warhol was both a great pleasure and a daunting challenge for me.

I gradually came to the conclusion that the collection required professional management and that clear concepts should be developed to enable me to set the right strategy for new acquisitions, always, of course, within the quality standards that Alexander and his partner had established. And so in 1995 we founded Daros, an organization based in Zurich and specializing in art.

Today, part of the Daros Collection is shown to the public in different exhibitions held at the Löwenbräu complex in Zurich, a remodeled old brewery. Because of my close ties to Latin America, my former wife and I created the Daros Latin America Collection to support artists in the region and afford them the opportunity to achieve recognition in international markets for themselves and for art in their countries. Our collections are complemented by the Daros Art Education Program, specifically directed to the young public, whose goal is to bring art to people.