Hans Purrmann: 22 cool facts

Hans Marsilius Purrmann (April 10, 1880 – April 17, 1966) was a German artist. He was born in Speyer where he furthermore grew up. He completed an apprenticeship as a scene painter and interior decorator, and taking into consideration studied in Karlsruhe and Munich past going to Paris in 1906. It was here he became a student and well ahead a friend of Henri Matisse whom he set up a painting teacher with. After 1916 Purrmann lived in Berlin and Langenargen (Lake Constance), moving from there in 1935 to rule the German art inauguration at the Villa Romana in Florence. He lived there until 1943, then in Montagnola (Switzerland). He died in Basel. Typical of Purrmann’s style are colourful, sensitively painted landscapes, still lifes and portraits. There are large collections of his works in Langenargen Museum and in the Purrmann House, Speyer.