Hans Purrmann

{{Short description|German painter}}

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{{Infobox artist

| name = Hans Marsilius Purrmann

| image = Self-portrait, Hans Purrmann, 1897.jpg

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| caption = Self-portrait, 1897

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|4|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Speyer

| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|4|17|1880|4|10|df=y}}

| death_place = Basel

| nationality = German

| known_for = Painting

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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.{{cite book | last=Stamm | first=Rainer | last2=Köpnick | first2=Gloria | title=Matisse kommt mir vor wie vom Himmel | publisher=Deutscher Kunstverlag | publication-place=Berlin | date=2024 | isbn=978-3-422-80212-4 | language=de | page=}}{{cite web | title=Ein Leben für die Farbe | website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur | date=20 January 2006 | url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ein-leben-fuer-die-farbe-100.html | language=de | access-date=31 December 2024}} 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.{{cite book | last=Kuhn | first=Philipp | title=Refugium Villa Romana. Hans Purrmann in Florenz 1935-1943 | publisher=Deutscher Kunstverlag | publication-place=Berlin | date=2019-10-08 | isbn=978-3-422-98025-9 | language=de | page=}} He lived there until 1943, then in Montagnola (Switzerland).{{cite web | title=im Fokus: "Hans Purrmann in Montagnola"– Rückblick | website=Archiv – Kunstportal-Pfalz | url=https://www.kunstportal-pfalz.de/de/veranstalter/im-fokus-hans-purrmann-in-montagnola/29/eid,19106/im-fokus-hans-purrmann-in-montagnola.html | language=de | access-date=31 December 2024}} He died in Basel.{{cite web | title=Personen | website=Künste im Exil | url=https://kuenste-im-exil.de/KIE/Content/DE/Personen/purrmann-hans.html | language=de | access-date=31 December 2024}} 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.