Everything, says the preacher Solomon in the Old Testament, has its time: the gathering of stones as well as the scattering of stones. And so, even at the end of the most passionate collecting life, junk dealers sometimes just come to the house to see how they can get what they have collected back to the people. In the case of the recently deceased major Hamburg collector Harald Falckenberg, Christian Jankowski, one of the artists that Falckenberg has enthusiastically supported since he graduated from the Hamburg Art School, has now taken this into his own hands. (At that time he bought the video of the performance “The Hunt”, which quickly became famous, of a supermarket shopping trip with a bow and arrow.) Jankowski, who was just as fond of the late-appointed, cheerful collector as he was of him, has now commissioned the household clearance company “Rümpelwelt” not to Falckenberg’s art collection, but also his household. Because the widow leaves the shared apartment and moves into a smaller one. However, he first had most of what remained and had to be taken out before it was swept clean, from the office chair to the books, to Potsdam and unloaded at the Villa Schöningen, the exhibition house directly on the Glienicker bank financed by Springer boss Mathias Döpfner Bridge. Since then, above the entrance to the very elegant neoclassical building, surprised walkers have found a sign with the inscription: “Antik Stübchen Nachwort”, in the Art Nouveau font Böcklin, which is popular with junk shops because of its nostalgic look. Among them: “Renaissance as a cultural technique.”
Villa Schöningen in Potsdam honors collector Harald Falckenberg – Culture
