The painter Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) ranks among the most
important colourists of twentieth- entury art. Drawing on Henri
Matisse and the expressionists, he developed a distinct and
acclaimed artistic practice over the course of a life lived in
places from Munich to Paris to Berlin to Florence to Switzerland.
Part of the secret of Hans Purrmann's art is that in his work he
translated the visible in a very specific and vibrant manner. With
irrepressible curiosity, attentiveness and an unerring eye for
beauty and the primal and essential, he produced works whose
classification as "representational painting" falls short. In fact,
his place in art history is one which continues to offer points of
departure for modernism ["einen fur die Moderne bis heute
anschlussfahigen Rang": in der Kunst ist die Moderne eine
abgeschlossene Epoche]: in 1955 Purrmann was included in documenta
I in Kassel, and in 1962 he was the subject of a major
retrospective at the Haus der Kunst in Munich which was hailed by
the press as a sensation. Based on new sources, Christoph Wagner
presents the life and work of Hans Purrmann and places the painter
as a prominent protagonist within the coordinates of
twentieth-century art history.
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