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- ↑ Pressemitteilung: Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart erhält 166 Werke zeitgenössischer Kunst als Schenkung von Friedrich Christian Flick [ permanent dead link ], 16. Februar 2008
- ↑ Thomas Ramge: Die Flicks. Eine deutsche Familiengeschichte um Geld, Macht und Politik. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37404-8.
- ↑ Isabelle Graw, (De)facing the Flick Collection Texte zur Kunst, June 2005.
- ↑ "Gstaad: The Last Resort". NYT. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
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