On the death of the gallery owner and collector’s daughter: Jenny Falckenberg’s fine feeling for art

Her father Harald Falckenberg, who died in 2023 at the age of eighty, was one of the most important art collectors in the Federal Republic. His collection has been part of Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen since 2011.

Jenny Falckenberg herself was considered an important art agent. She was “a defining personality of the contemporary art scene in Hamburg and beyond,” the family said in a statement about her death. With “her keen sense of art and people” she created platforms for established and young artists and understood how to stage art as a lively, connecting experience.

Numerous celebrities mourned the Hamburg woman on Instagram. The Hamburg actress Sandra Quadflieg and the presenters Jochen Schropp and Nova Meierhenrich were surprised and shocked by the death of the 45-year-old.