Hans Purrmann
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox artist Hans Marsilius Purrmann (10 April 1880 – 17 April 1966) was a German artist. He was born in Speyer where he also grew up. He completed an apprenticeship as a scene painter and interior decorator, and subsequently studied in Karlsruhe and Munich before going to Paris in 1906. It was here he became a student and later a friend of Henri Matisse whom he set up a painting school with.<ref name="r901">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="m761">Template:Cite web</ref> After 1916, Purrmann lived in Berlin and Langenargen (Lake Constance), moving from there in 1935 to run the German art foundation at the Villa Romana in Florence.<ref name="x252">Template:Cite book</ref> He lived there until 1943, then in Montagnola (Switzerland).<ref name="t161">Template:Cite web</ref> He died in Basel.<ref name="y538">Template:Cite web</ref> 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.
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Seated nude, 1909
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Nude in front of a mirror, 1919
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- 1880 births
- 1966 deaths
- 19th-century German painters
- 19th-century German male artists
- German male painters
- 20th-century German painters
- 20th-century German male artists
- German modern painters
- People from Speyer
- Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)
- Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Artists in the Degenerate Art exhibition