Her father initially was the general director and later majority owner of the machinery concern Oerlikon.

[4][5] Her mother hailed from a banking dynasty of Magdeburg, which would later finance the majority of the acquisition of the concern.

[7] She was also owner of the Hotel Storchen Zürich and Castello del Sole in Ascona, Switzerland.

[8] Together with her brother, she did also inherit the art collection of her late father, which in 1960 led to the establishment of Foundation E. G. Bührle in Zürich, in the former family house.

Anda-Bührle was also a member of the board of trustees of the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz in Florence, Italy,[9] Ittingen Charterhouse and Goethe-Stiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft in Zürich.