Erich Marx (entrepreneur)

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Erich Marx (born April 25, 1921 in Brombach near Lörrach ) is a German entrepreneur , art collector and patron .

Life

Erich Marx is the son of a warehouse worker. After the Second World War he studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the University of Basel . After completing his doctorate , he began working as the head of the legal department in the Burda Group . He later moved to managerial positions at other publishers.

In 1967, Marx founded his own property development company in Berlin (Dr. Erich Marx GmbH, registered under HRB 2520 at HRG Berlin-Charlottenburg), which was initially active in the construction of apartments and hotels (including building and renovating the “relexa” hotels nationwide ten locations), then also in the construction and operation of clinics ( Median Kliniken GmbH & Co. KG ). Since 1969, alongside Erich Marx, Axel Steinwarz, the managing director of the "relexa hotel GmbH" founded in 1980, was the second managing partner of Median Kliniken. The Median clinics, with the exception of the facilities in Bad Krozingen , which now operate under the name Park-Klinikum Bad Krozingen , and the Tumor Biology Clinic in Freiburg were sold to the American finance company "Advent International" and the London real estate investor Marcol in 2009. In 2007, the Freiburg University Medical Center negotiated the takeover of the Tumor Biology Clinic. However, the project failed in 2011; the university clinic decided to build a new building on its own. In August 2011 the company announced the sale of the clinic for tumor biologists to Fimarco SA Friborg (CH). According to his own statement, Marx and his company built 37 clinics with 200 beds each.

He came into crucial contact with contemporary art (a graphic by the Worpswede-based artist Friedrich Meckseper ) while visiting a gallery on the island of Sylt . He began collecting works of art from the 1950s, including major works by Joseph Beuys , Andy Warhol , Robert Rauschenberg , Roy Lichtenstein , Anselm Kiefer and Cy Twombly . When the collection became too large for his private home, he offered it to the city of Berlin on permanent loan in the mid-1980s . In 1987 the Berlin Senate decided to set up a museum for contemporary art in the former Hamburger Bahnhof . The Marx collection has been housed there since 1996, and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation took over the sponsorship . When Deutsche Bahn AG planned in 1998 to accommodate a guest house in the east wing of the building, Marx threatened to withdraw his loan. After his curator Heiner Bastian (the former secretary of Joseph Beuys), who had built up and looked after the Marx Collection , resigned in March 2007 due to criticism of the exhibition policy of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation , Marx threatened to withdraw his loan again.

Marx is a member of the “Friends of the Cultural Foundation of the Countries ”, of the “Society of Friends of the Academy of Arts ”, of the Association of Friends of the National Gallery Berlin (also a member of the board of trustees). He is one of the first to sign a call for the reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace . Furthermore, Marx is deputy chairman of the Berlin "Association for the Promotion of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem".

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  1. ↑ The new show with "Land Art" shows Richard Long's round art made of mud and stone. Hamburger Bahnhof gets into circles. (No longer available online.) In: BZ Online. March 30, 2011, archived from the original on April 19, 2011 ; Retrieved April 19, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Job guarantee for tumor biology . Badische Zeitung, March 24, 2011, accessed on September 9, 2012
  3. ↑ Michael Brendler: Freiburg: Decision: University Clinic does not buy tumor biology . Badische Zeitung, May 25, 2011; Retrieved July 13, 2011
  4. ↑ Heinz Siebold: Investor takes over the Tumor Biology Clinic . Badische Zeitung, August 12, 2011, accessed on September 9, 2012
  5. ↑ Herlinde Koelbl: Erich Marx: “From birth I have a need for peace and harmony” . In: ZEITmagazin . No. 9 , 2018 ( zeit.de [accessed February 27, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Sigrid Kneist: art patron Marx threatens his collection with withdrawal. (No longer available online.) Der Tagesspiegel, October 21, 1998, archived from the original on April 19, 2011 ; Retrieved April 19, 2011 .
  7. ^ Culture: Collector Erich Marx wants his pictures back. (No longer available online.) In: Welt Online . Axel Springer, March 27, 2007, archived from the original on April 19, 2011 ; Retrieved April 19, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Marx, Erich in honor of the directory Luisenstädtischer Education Association ; Retrieved September 9, 2012
  9. ^ Eva Karcher: Award ceremony: Glory for the patron . focus.de, March 17, 1997, accessed September 9, 2012
  10. ↑ Large Cross of Merit for Erich Marx . BZ , May 25, 2001, accessed September 9, 2012
  11. ↑ Honorary Senators of the Albert Ludwig University . Retrieved September 9, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Marx, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, art collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Brombach