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Friedrich Christian Flick (born 19 September 1944), also known as Mick Flick, is a German
art collector A private collection is a privately owned collection of works (usually artworks) or valuable items. In a museum or art gallery context, the term signifies that a certain work is not owned by that institution, but is on loan from an individual ...
.


Life

Trained as a
lawyer A lawyer is a person who is qualified to offer advice about the law, draft legal documents, or represent individuals in legal matters. The exact nature of a lawyer's work varies depending on the legal jurisdiction and the legal system, as w ...
, he is one of the heirs to the
Flick family The Flick family is a wealthy German family with an industrial empire that formerly embraced holdings in companies involved in coal, steel and a minority holding in Daimler AG. Friedrich Flick (1883–1972) was the founder of the dynasty, establis ...
industrial fortune, and the founder of the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection. Flick is the son of
Otto-Ernst Flick Otto-Ernst Flick (1916–1974) was the oldest of three sons born to Friedrich Flick and wife Marie Schuss in 1916 in Germany. Biography Otto-Ernst was born on June 27, 1916. He entered the Friedrich Flick Industry Holding Company in 1953, but ...
and grandson of the Nazi sympathiser and supporter
Friedrich Flick Friedrich Flick (10 July 1883 – 20 July 1972) was a German industrialist and convicted Nazi war criminal. After the Second World War, he reconstituted his businesses, becoming the richest person in West Germany West Germany was the co ...
, the founder of the Flick family industrial conglomerate—who was later convicted of crimes against humanity at the
Nuremberg Trials #REDIRECT Nuremberg trials {{redirect category shell, {{R from other capitalisation{{R from move ...
, specifically the Flick Trial.Isabelle Graw
(De)facing the Flick Collection
Texte zur Kunst ''Texte zur Kunst'' is a German contemporary art magazine. History ''Texte zur Kunst'' was founded in 1990 in Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of ...
, June 2005.
After studying law in Munich, he obtained a doctorate in law in Hamburg. Since the 1970s, he has lived in
Gstaad Gstaad ( , ) is a town in the German language, German-speaking section of the Canton of Bern in southwestern Switzerland. It is part of the municipality of Saanen and is known as a major ski resort and a popular destination amongst high society ...
, Switzerland. Flick was first married to the Spanish model Andrea de Portago. In 1985, he married
Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau Countess Maria Felicitas von Schönburg-Glauchau (; 15 August 1958 – 27 January 2019), also known as Maya von Schönburg, was a German socialite. Early life and family Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau was born on 15 August 1958 to Joac ...
, a daughter of
Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau Joachim Heinrich Maria Carl Rudolf Franz Xaver Joseph Antonius Christophorus Hubertus Alfons Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau (4 February 1929 – 29 September 1998) was the nominal successor head of the former mediatised German Counts of Schönb ...
and Countess Beatrix Széchényi, and the older sister of
Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis Gloria, Dowager Princess of Thurn and Taxis (''Mariae Gloria Ferdinanda Joachima Josephine Wilhelmine Huberta''; born Countess Gloria von Schönburg-Glauchau, 23 February 1960) is a German socialite, businesswoman, Catholic activist, art collec ...
. They have three children, but were divorced in 1993.


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