About Magnus Resch

About Magnus Resch

Magnus Resch, Ph. D. is a respected influencer in the art world, both as an academic and entrepreneur. At the age of 20 he co-ran an art gallery in Switzerland to finance his university career. In 2012 he co-founded Larry’s List, the world’s premier art collector platform. In 2016 he launched the Magnus app, which works like Shazam for Art. Leonardo DiCaprio is an investor and advisor to the company. Magnus’s career was the subject of a Harvard Business School case study, which has been taught in the MBA class every year since 2018.

Magnus is passionate about the economics of the art market. He is the author of several books on the art market, teaches art economics at Yale University, previously at Columbia University, and published a paper in 2018 about success in art in the world’s leading academic journal, Science.

Magnus has a track record as a tech entrepreneur. At the age of 27, he became Managing Director of Springstar, a Berlin based internet incubator (2500 employees and $2bn revenue). Here he started, failed and exited several internet start-ups, among them Gourmeo.com (a failure), Juvalia.com (that was ok), Gymondo.de ($$), Larryslist.com and magnus.net.

Magnus studied business at Harvard, the London School of Economics, the University of St. Gallen and Hong Kong University. He holds a Ph. D. in Economics, and was awarded scholarships by both the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Swiss National Foundation. Magnus was a soldier in the German Army (Hochzug, Mittenwald), and for twelve years stadium speaker at an ATP Tennis Championship. In 2014 he was awarded Germany’s most prestigious social media prize “The Golden Umberto” for his infamous “Idautit” viral video.

Magnus lives and works in New York City.

Magnus speaks about the art market

Here Magnus speaks in front of 2,000 people about the mechanisms of the art market.

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