Friedrich Christian Flick
Friedrich Christian Flick (born September 19, 1944 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg , Upper Palatinate ) is a German lawyer , entrepreneur and art collector.
Life
Friedrich Christian "Mick" Flick was born as the son of Otto-Ernst Flick and his wife Barbara . Raabe, daughter of Karl Raabe , was born. His grandfather was the company founder Friedrich Flick . After attending elementary school in Starnberg , the family moved to Dusseldorf , where Friedrich Christian Flick in 1964 in the Comenius School High School made. It was at this time that he first came into contact with contemporary art, which was well represented in Düsseldorf by Richter , Polke , Lüpertz and Uecker .
Although it already then fascinated the art world, he devoted himself first to a commercial career, volunteered in the United States at various banks and finally worked - after studying law in Munich and Promotion Dr. jur. in Hamburg - for the light bulb company Osram . In 1972 Flick joined the Friedrich Flick limited partnership as a partner, where he took on the role of managing director. In 1975 he parted ways and after stays in the USA and England, he finally moved to Switzerland , where he has been a businessman and art collector ever since. He owns a chalet in Gstaad .
His collection of modern art, the “ Friedrich Christian Flick Collection ”, is considered to be one of the most outstanding contemporary collections in the world. It includes around 2500 works by 150 artists of the 20th / 21st centuries. Century and has been on view since 2004 for seven years in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin. At the heart of the collection is an extensive block of works by Bruce Nauman , with further focus on minimalism and video art . The exhibition is controversial because the money from which the works of art were bought were also generated by slave labor in armaments factories during the Nazi era . In April 2005, only after massive criticism, Friedrich Christian Flick paid five million euros, 1% of his estimated private assets at the time, to the forced labor fund foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” .
In February 2008 Flick donated 166 works of contemporary art (parts of his collection; including works by Nam June Paik, John Cage, Dan Graham, Isa Genzken, David Weiss, Stan Douglas, Andreas Hofer, Bruce Nauman and Candida Höfer) to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as a carrier for the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart .
As part of the investigation into the Swiss-Leaks tax affair , it was discovered in 2014 that Flick had hidden around 60 million euros in the Swiss subsidiary of HSBC via mailbox companies .
Private
His first marriage to Spanish top model Andrea de Portago was short-lived. His marriage to Maya Felicitas Countess von Schönburg-Glauchau (1958-2019), Gloria von Thurn und Taxis' older sister , made headlines in the gossip columns . The marriage fell apart after eight years. The three children stayed with their mother, who received a severance payment worth millions. Flick lives in Switzerland.
Gert-Rudolf Flick is his brother, the entrepreneur Friedrich Karl Flick is his uncle
Foundation, endowment
In 2001 Friedrich Christian Flick founded the private FC Flick Foundation against xenophobia, racism and intolerance based in Potsdam.
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Christian Flick in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nils Klawitter: Voluntary Forced Labor? In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 2008, p. 96 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/panorama/vermischtes/FlickChalet-Warum-kam-es-zum-zweiten-Brand/story/23679677
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/wer-ist-friedrich-christian-flick/548368.html
- ↑ Press release: Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart receives 166 works of contemporary art as a gift from Friedrich Christian Flick , February 16, 2008
- ↑ Zeit.de: HSBC, SwissLeaks reveals 3.5 billion German black money
- ^ Obituary notice Maya Countess von Schönburg-Glauchau , FAZ from January 30, 2019
- ↑ Balance: The richest Germans in Switzerland
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flick, Friedrich Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, entrepreneur and art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sulzbach-Rosenberg , Upper Palatinate |