Gert-Rudolf Flick

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Gert-Rudolf Flick (born May 29, 1943 in Deutsch-Rumbach , Baden-Alsace ) is a German lawyer, entrepreneur, author and art collector.

Life

Gert-Rudolf "Muck" Flick is the son of Otto-Ernst Flick and his wife Barbara geb. Raabe, daughter of Karl Raabe . His grandfather was the founder of the company, Friedrich Flick (1882–1972), whose company was the largest German armaments supplier during the Nazi era and who was sentenced to seven years in prison in the Flick trial in 1947 .

Gert-Rudolf Flick moved to attending elementary school in Starnberg with his family to Dusseldorf , where he in the Comenius School 1960 High School made. Further stations of his training were: 1961 to 1963 officer candidates in the German Navy in Glücksburg ; 1963 lieutenant at sea ; 1963 to 1968 studied law at the University of Munich ; 1968 to 1971 doctorate to Dr. jur. in Hamburg ; 1970 traineeship at the New York "European-American-Bank".

In 1966 Gert-Rudolf Flick became a co-owner of Friedrich Flick KG. In May 1971 he was promoted to the management as a personally liable partner . In 1975 Gert-Rudolf Flick and his brother Friedrich Christian withdrew from the group management and their uncle Friedrich Karl Flick paid out their inheritance , who then took over sole management. In the same year he became chairman of the Swiss corporation Gerag and in 1982 chairman of the corporation Garel, also located in Switzerland.

The move to Gstaad ( Canton Bern , Switzerland) in 1979 was followed in 1985 by the move to London in the Kensington district . At the suggestion of his friend Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon , Flick began to build up an extensive collection of old masters in London . He also put together an extensive silver collection, was at times co-editor of the well-known British art magazine Apollo-Magazine and published two art history books in 2003 and 2008.

After sponsoring the English National Opera and Hammersmith Hospital in London, Flick wanted to donate 350,000 pounds sterling to Oxford University in 1995 for a "Flick Chair in the History of the European Idea". But because this met with severe criticism in the British press, he renounced the foundation in April 1996. In 2001 Flick and his sister Dagmar, following the request of the German Business Foundation (“Forced Labor Foundation ”) after a “moral gesture”, donated a sum of several million euros .

Currently, Gert-Rudolf Flick is Visiting Professor of Art History ( Engl. : Visiting Professor in History of Art ) at the first and only private university of Great Britain , the University of Buckingham .

Private

After a long bachelorette party, Flick first married Princess Johanna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (* 1948), a great-granddaughter of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , in 1976 , and in 1985 the Italian Donatella Missikoff-Horowitz (* 1953), née Princess Missikoff of Ossetia. From this marriage a son (born 1989) was born. In 1996 he separated from his second wife and in April 2000 married the 23 years younger lawyer and literary scholar Corinne Müller-Vivil, a daughter of the Baden peppermint entrepreneur Axel Vivil (1939–2012). They have a daughter (born 2006).

Like his brother Friedrich Christian Flick, Gert-Rudolf Flick owns a chalet in Gstaad (Switzerland), which was badly damaged by fire on January 1st, 2011. Until 2013, however, Flick spent most of the time in his villa "Park House" in the south of the London borough of Kensington. After Flick obtained the building permit for an extensive basement of his property in 2012 against the resistance of numerous neighbors, he had it offered for sale in September 2013 for 105 million pounds sterling. At the same time he announced that he would be moving to Austria for at least one year. There he has owned the Montfort Castle in Salzburg since 2003 .

Publications

  • Missing Masterpieces: Lost Works of Art 1450–1900. Merrell Publishers, London 2003, ISBN 978-185894197-4 .
  • Masters and Pupils: The Artistic Succession from Perugino to Manet 1480-1880. Paul Holberton Publishing, Hogarth Arts Series, London 2008, ISBN 978-0955406324

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personal data
SURNAME Flick, Gert-Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flick, Muck (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, entrepreneur, author and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Deutsch-Rumbach , Baden-Alsace