Software billionaire plans to turn decaying Potsdam restaurant into museum for East German art
Hasso Plattner also plans to put his Impressionist works on permanent display in his Barberini Museum
CATHERINE HICKLEY
The software billionaire Hasso Plattner, the founder of the Barberini Museum that opened in the German city of Potsdam in 2017, is already planning his next museum. He intends to transform a decaying communist-era restaurant building in the city into a home for his collection of East German art.