As if out of his senses, collector and new multimillionaire Torsten Bröhan sued the journalist and operator of this website, Marcus Johst, and attempted to inhibit media coverage about himself, not shying away from lying…
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In 2011, the German design classic collector and dealer Torsten Bröhan sold his collection of design classics to the Chinese city of Hangzhou for several million euros. Chinese media reported on this. We took the…
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In 2011, two German design experts visited a preliminary presentation of Torsten Bröhan’s Hangzhou design collection, which is officially referred to as the “Bauhaus collection” in the Chinese public even though many of the exhibits…
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The Berlin art dealer Torsten Bröhan is admired in expert circles for the spectacular sale of his so-called Bauhaus Collection (according to Chinese officials and media) to China. Because unlike paintings and fine art in general,…
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In 2011, the respected China Academy of Art (CAA) in the city of Hangzhou bought a large collection of design objects from the German dealer and collector Torsten Bröhan in order to make them accessible…
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A beautiful teakettle from the Bröhan Collection for Huangzhou, which was confused with something from the Bauhaus era, stands as the symbol of China’s creativity policy – the country needs new designers! By buying the…
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Did a graphic designer from China living in Berlin become the key figure of what was probably the biggest deal in design objects there has ever been? The Chinese city of Hangzhou paid millions of…
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What can the Bauhaus teach modern up-and-coming designers in China? Clean design, clarity of form, a renunciation of ornamentation? The Bauhaus, as devised by its founders Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius in Germany…
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