Gert-Rudolf Flick

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Gert-Rudolf Flick
Born29 May 1943
France
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Munich
OccupationArt historian
Spouse(s)Corinne Müller-Vivil

Gert-Rudolf "Muck" Flick (born 29 May 1943) is a German art historian and collector, a member of the Flick family of industrialists whose wealth originated with Flick's grandfather, Friedrich Flick, who worked with the Nazis during the Second World War. He is the former publisher of Apollo magazine and is a visiting professor in the history of art at the University of Buckingham. He has written two well-received works on the history of art, Missing Masterpieces (2003) and Masters and Pupils (2008).

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Early life and family

Gert-Rudolf Flick was born on 29 May 1943 in France to Otto-Ernst Flick and his wife Barbara Raabe. His grandfather was Friedrich Flick, a German industrialist convicted after the Second World War of using slave labour in his factories. [1]

He married and divorced first Princess Johanna von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein. Secondly, he married and divorced Princess Donatella Missikoff of Ossetia with whom he had one son Sebastian (1989). Thirdly, he married Corinne Müller-Vivil, a confectionary heiress, [2] [3] with whom he has one daughter. [4]

Career

Flick has a PhD in law from the University of Munich. He joined the Flick firm in 1971 but with his younger siblings, Friedrich Christian Flick ("Mick") and Dagmar Flick, negotiated a sale of their interests in the firm that was realised in 1975 for a shared 405m marks and an additional negotiated payment of 225m marks later. Flick later made a significant gain on the sale of shares following a change in ownership of the Flick group. [5]

In the 1990s, Flick was the publisher of Apollo magazine. He has written two major works on the history of art, a study of Missing Masterpieces (2003), and Masters and Pupils (2008) which postulated an apostolic succession of training in European art history. [6] As of 2019, he is a visiting professor in the history of art at the University of Buckingham. [7]

University of Oxford

In 1992, Flick was appointed to the Court of Benefactors of the University of Oxford in recognition of donations he had made to the Europaeum project. [8] A proposed Flick professorship in European thought at the university proved controversial due to concerns that its funding might be tainted by Flick's inheritance from his grandfather who had created his business empire partly during the Nazi period. [9] In March 1996, Flick wrote to The Daily Telegraph to repudiate his grandfather's war-time activities. [10] The funding of around £350,000 was withdrawn at Flick's request later that year. [11]

Park House

Flick was resident with his wife Corinne at Park House, Kensington, in central London which he is reported as having purchased in 1986. [4] The house was home to his collection of early silver and Italian old master paintings and vedutà including a Canaletto scene of fireworks over Venice. [4] [7] In 2013 he won planning permission to expand the house by creating new rooms in the basement despite opposition from neighbours. [4] The excavation was carried out but the full plans were unrealised. The house was sold to the businessman Richard Caring for £40m in 2018. [12]

Selected publications

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References

  1. ↑ "Fund-raising and the Holocaust: The Case of Dr Gert-Rudolf Flick's Contribution to Oxford University" by Michael Pinto-Duschinsky in Alan Montefiore & David Vines (Eds.) (2005). Integrity in the Public and Private Domains. Routledge. p. 262. ISBN   978-1-134-67938-6.
  2. ↑ "Vivil A Mueller GmbH & Co KG - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  3. ↑ de:Vivil
  4. 1 2 3 4 Daimler-Benz heir wins planning row over 'tasteless' basement plans. Andrew Hough, The Telegraph , 6 February 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  5. ↑ Gert-Rudolf Flick - von Beruf Erbe. Christian Keun, Spiegel Online , 2001. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  6. ↑ The line of beauty. Brian Sewell, New Statesman , 26 June 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  7. 1 2 Professor Gert-Rudolf Flick. University of Buckingham. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  8. ↑ Pinto-Duschinsky, p. 228.
  9. ↑ Pinto-Duschinsky, p. 245.
  10. ↑ Pinto-Duschinsky, p. 247.
  11. ↑ Balliol loses its tainted cash. Ros Wynne-Jones, The Independent, 16 April 1996. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  12. ↑ "Digging in: Ivy tycoon Richard Caring plans double basement at 'bargain' £40m Kensington mansion", Jonathan Prynn, Homes and Property, 18 December 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
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