Hans Purrmann: The Vitality of Colour

A master of color and an ambitious cosmopolite: Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) was an authoritative figure who forged links in European modernism both as an artist and a personality, as a stylist and a figure of social integration. His paintings balance lightly between being a record of what he saw and a visual reflection of painting as a form of expression. As a young man, Purrmann encountered the latest movements of the art of his time in Munich and Berlin, but after moving to Paris he establi...