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Hans Purrmann (Speyer 1880 - Basel 1966) - Sell & Buy

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German painter and etcher, main master of the Matisse school in Germany. P. studied at the Munich Academy under F. von Stuck and G. Hackl. He was already a member of the Berlin Secession when he moved to Paris in 1906 to continue his training with H. Matisse. He soon became his right-hand man and built up the Académie Matisse together with the master. In 1935, P. took over as director of the Villa Romana in Florence. Among his awards was the Order Pour le Mérite in 1955. Mus.: Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Bremen, Leipzig, Basel a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer a. others.

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