As a trained biochemist and pharmacist, Hellmuth Rossler had lived and worked all over Africa in the health care sector for more than 35 years. But he did not become a serious collector of contemporary African art until the mid-1990s.
“I’d collected a bit of local art as a youth in Germany, but I’d never thought of [East African] art as anything other than souvenir curios,” Hellmuth tells BDLife.
