Friedrich Christian Flick Collection
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The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection is a modern art collection founded by Friedrich Christian Flick, an art collector and heir to the fortune of the ignoble Flick industrial family.[1] It is one of the world's leading modern art collections.[2]
The collection encompasses around 2,500 works by 150 artists. From 2004 to 2010, parts of the collection were on display in Berlin, in the Hamburger Bahnhof museum, as part of a cooperation between Flick, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Berlin State Museums. Friedrich Christian Flick began his art collection in 1975. From the early 1980s, he has principally collected modern art.[3] The opening exhibition "Creation Myths", the first of a series to be curated by museum staff, was named after American installation artist Jason Rhoades's sculpture of the same name.[4] The venture was originally planned for an initial period of seven years, until 2011. The partnership was later extended by another ten years, until 2021.
In February 2008, Flick donated 166 works of art to the National Gallery, the largest gift of a private person to the museum since its foundation in the 19th century. This donation includes works of the last forty years, including main works by artists like Marcel Broodthaers, John Cage, David Claerbout, Stan Douglas, Urs Fischer, Martin Kippenberger, Hugo Markl, Bruce Nauman, Raymond Pettibon, Jason Rhoades, and Wolfgang Tillmans.[5]
