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Maja Sacher (7 August 1896 – 8 August 1989) was a Swiss art collector and philanthropist. Tomb of Maja Sacher Early life and education. She was born in 1896 to the architect Fritz Stehlin and Helene von Bavier. She studied sculpture in Munich and was taught by Antoine Bourdelle in Paris.
Maja Sacher’s contacts in the world of fine arts helped Rohn to commission superlative pieces for Roche from such artists as Henry Moore, Eduardo Chillida, Ödon Koch or Bernhard Luginbühl. She not only influenced the company’s strategy until her death in 1989, but nearly all building projects and the interior spaces of Roche.
The inauguration of the Museum für Gegenwartskunst on St. Alban-Rheinweg in 1980 was made possible by a joint donation by the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation and its founder Maja Sacher-Stehlin and her family to the Christoph Merian Foundation, which has provided the building to the Kunstmuseum Basel.
18 de jun. de 2015 · Hoffmann-Stehlin (who became Maja Sacher in 1934 when she remarried) was a powerful president, reigning supreme in the role until 1979 (she died in 1989).
In 1933 the 36-year-old Maja Hoffmann-Stehlin (1896—1989) created a foundation in Basel, which was devoted to the progressive goal of collecting works of art and making them accessible to the public: the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation.
As Maja spent decades curating a thought-provoking art collection to fill the walls of Roche spaces, she irrevocably shaped Roche’s passion for art and culture. To this day, supporting the arts to challenge and inspire is one of the philanthropic endeavours of our family-led company.
The Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation was established in 1933 by Maja Hoffmann-Stehlin, the later Maja Sacher-Stehlin, (1896–1989), to continue the commitment to contemporary art which she and her husband, who passed away young, had begun.
