{{Short description|German-Swiss art collector and heir}} '''Friedrich Christian Flick''' (born 19 September 1944), also known as '''Mick Flick''', is a German art collector.
== Life == Trained as a lawyer, he is one of the heirs to the Flick family industrial fortune, and the founder of the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection.<ref>[http://www.hv.spk-berlin.de/deutsch/presse/pdf/080219_FlickSchenkung_HamburgerBahnhof.pdf Pressemitteilung: Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart erhält 166 Werke zeitgenössischer Kunst als Schenkung von Friedrich Christian Flick]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 16. Februar 2008</ref><ref>Thomas Ramge: ''Die Flicks. Eine deutsche Familiengeschichte um Geld, Macht und Politik''. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, {{ISBN|3-593-37404-8}}.</ref>
Flick is the son of Otto-Ernst Flick and grandson of the Nazi sympathiser and supporter Friedrich Flick, the founder of the Flick family industrial conglomerate—who was later convicted of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials, specifically the Flick Trial.<ref>Isabelle Graw, [http://www.textezurkunst.de/58/defacing-flick-collection/ (De)facing the Flick Collection] Texte zur Kunst, June 2005.</ref>
After studying law in Munich, he obtained a doctorate in law in Hamburg. Since the 1970s, he has lived in Gstaad, Switzerland.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|title=Gstaad: The Last Resort|url=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/gstaad-switzerland-hotels-resorts/?_r=0|website=NYT|accessdate=30 December 2014}}</ref>
Flick was first married to the Spanish model and Andy Warhol's muse Andrea de Portago, daughter of Spanish aristocrat and racing driver Alfonso de Portago.<ref name=Warhol>{{Cite web|first=Martín |last=Bianchi |url=https://www.abc.es/estilo/gente/20140601/abci-andrea-portago-musa-andy-201405301915.html|title=La musa española de Andy Warhol pierde su marquesado|language=es|work=ABC|date=1 June 2014|access-date=28 November 2025}}</ref>
In 1985, he married Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau,<ref name=Warhol/> a daughter of Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau and Countess Beatrix Széchényi, and the older sister of Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis. They have three children, but were divorced in 1993.
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