“Man of finance and art”: Olaf Gulbransson Society mourns Ekkehard Storck

Created: 01/07/2022, 10:00 AM

From: Sebastian Grauvogl

On the construction site of the extension: Ekkehard Storck (†).

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Without him there would be no extension - and therefore no major special exhibitions: Ekkehard Storck shaped the Olaf Gulbransson Museum in Tegernsee.

Now he's died.

Tegernsee

- World-class art can be admired in the Olaf Gulbransson Museum in Tegernsee.

Works by international masters such as Edvard Munch, Lyonel Feininger, Max Beckmann or - very recently - Marc Chagall attract visitors from near and far to the exhibition rooms in the spa gardens.

These large special exhibitions were only made possible by the extension that opened in 2008.

Ekkehard Storck, who has now died at the age of 88, played a key role in the implementation.

Storck's vision has shaped the museum to this day

The lawyer Storck, who grew up in Berlin, was considered one of the most important experts in the euro market. From 1970 he headed Deutsche Bank in Luxembourg for 28 years. At his retirement home on Lake Tegernsee, he was chairman of the Olaf Gulbransson Society from 2000 to 2008. "Only through his extraordinary passion for art, his energetic assertiveness, but above all through the implementation of his vision of a living museum in Tegernsee, can we realize our dedicated exhibition program today," said the chairman of the company, Michael Beck, and his deputy Klaus Fresenius.

As a “man of finance and art”, Storck used his talents for the Tegernsee valley and, with the extension, created a “place of encounter at the highest artistic level” that shines far beyond the boundaries of the valley.

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