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Hamburg art collector and patron Harald Falckenberg dies aged 80
The influential art collector, curator, publisher and writer Harald Falckenberg, who loaned his important collection of contemporary art to the Deichtorhallen museum in Hamburg, has died at the age of 80.
Falckenberg assembled one of Germany’s most important private collections, with around 2,400 works.
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He sealed an agreement with the city of Hamburg transferring his collection and exhibition space to the Deichtorhallen as a loan in 2011, and last year extended the agreement to 2032. He attended the opening of a Cindy Sherman exhibition at the Deichtorhallen as recently as last month, said Carsten Brosda, Hamburg’s culture senator.
“Harald Falckenberg lived and debated intensively, loved discussion and discourse and constantly sought intellectual challenge,” said Dirk Luckow, the director of the Deichtorhallen.
“His generosity and passionate enthusiasm were inspirational.”
Falckenberg trained as a lawyer and worked