Bröhan Museum
The Bröhan Museum takes its name from Karl H. Bröhan, an entrepreneur and art collector who lived from 1921 to 2000 and donated his collection to the state of Berlin on his 60th birthday. Bröhan’s collecting began with 18th-century porcelain from the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in the early 1960s, and later shifted in the mid-1960s toward Art Nouveau—a style he felt around 1900 had been overlooked, “a hardly-known treasure only waiting to be discovered.” What you enter today opened on 14 October 1983, when the museum moved into its current space within the Charlottenburg Palace ensemble. That building was originally used as quarters for a guard regiment, linking the palace complex’s military past to a modern public collection. The museum became a state museum in 1994, and it is built around Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Functionalism, with works connected to the Berlin Secession. …
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