Hans Purrmann
1880
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1966
Photo: Hans Purrmann Archive, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019
Hans Marsilius Purrmann (* April 10, 1880 in Speyer; † April 17, 1966 in Basel) was a German painter, graphic artist, art writer and collector. He lived and worked in Munich, Paris, Berlin, Langenargen, Florence and Montagnola in Ticino.
As a student and friend of Henri Matisse in Paris, Purrmann found his own painterly form untouched by Expressionism. He created still lifes, nudes, portraits and mostly southern-lit landscape paintings. His oeuvre consists of nearly 1400 oil paintings, over 400 watercolors, over 1200 drawings, numerous prints and four sculptures. He was the husband of the painter Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann.
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