Harald Falckenberg
*1943, lives and works in Hamburg
Harald Falckenberg, born 1943, is a collector of contemporary art and author of numerous essays on art which are published in the anthologies “Ziviler Ungehorsam”/Civil Disobedience (2002) and “Aus dem Maschinenraum der Kunst”/From the Engine Room of Art (2007). Harald Falckenberg holds a Doctorate in Law and has been working as CEO of a company in the petrol business since 1979. He is President of the Kunstverein in Hamburg and Professor for Art Theory at the Hamburg Academy of Art. In 2011 he agreed to a long-term cooperation of his collection with the prestigious exhibition house Deichtorhallen Hamburg (www.sammlung-falckenberg.de)