The Frankfurt investment advisor Stefan Wallrich regularly invites people to view his art collection.
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What drives CEOs, lawyers and financial advisors to collect works of art – and what are they worth to them? Three managers provide insights.
Maybe that’s the whole joke. Motivation enough for banks, insurance companies and law firms to open the doors to the real treasures of larger and smaller companies that are otherwise hidden from the public more than just a crack. And invite complete strangers in. That is, once a year, as Stefan Wallrich says, when “Art private!” and people not only storm the towers of, say, Deutsche Bank, Helaba or DZ Bank to get an impression of the corporate collections, so that once a year the offices of Wallrich Asset Management are “cleaned particularly nicely ” will.
But that is of course pure understatement. The reasons for taking part in the company open days set up by the Hessian Ministry of Economic Affairs are as varied as the character of the respective collections. Like the personalities behind every collection.