Edition Purrmann Briefe
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The correspondence between artist Hans Purrmann (1880–1966) and author Karl Scheffler (1869–1951) offers the reader a unique insight into the debates between an artist and his critic from the 1920s through the Third Reich and up to the early post-War era. Between 1906–1933 Scheffler was the editor of Kunst und Künstler in Berlin, one of Germany’s most prestigious art magazines, and he accompanied the successful artist in a series of exhibition discussions and monographic articles. For his part, Purrmann expressed his views in the magazine. Accordingly, there were texts about artists and the art trade or on South Pacific art. The two men’s understanding of trends in art and art theories formed the basis of their friendship and for questions on art.
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The correspondence of Hans Purrmann (1880–1966) and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (1876–1943), an important painter couple of classical modernism, provides fascinating insights into the art world of the first half of the twentieth century. Following the volume Sehnsucht nach dem Anderen (Longing for the Other) about the years in Paris at the Académie Matisse, which was published in 2019, the second volume, Stürmische Zeiten (Stormy Times), continues the story of the artists’ marriage in the years from 1915 to 1943. While in Berlin, Langenargen, Rome, and Florence, Hans Purrmann and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann were also firmly anchored in the artistic avant-garde of Europe at this time, with all its historical, artistic, and personal upheavals.
The correspondence of Hans Purrmann (1880–1966) and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (1876–1943), an important painter couple of classical modernism, provides fascinating insights into the art world of the first half of the twentieth century. Following the volume Sehnsucht nach dem Anderen (Longing for the Other) about the years in Paris at the Académie Matisse, which was published in 2019, the second volume, Stürmische Zeiten (Stormy Times), continues the story of the artists’ marriage in the years from 1915 to 1943. While in Berlin, Langenargen, Rome, and Florence, Hans Purrmann and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann were also firmly anchored in the artistic avant-garde of Europe at this time, with all its historical, artistic, and personal upheavals.
Der Briefwechsel des Malers Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) und seiner Frau und Künstlerkollegin Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (1876-1943) der Jahre 1909 bis 1914 erzählt die spannende Geschichte aus der Anfangszeit ihrer Künstlerehe in Paris. Verbunden in ihrer Leidenschaft für die Malerei haben Hans Purrmann und Mathilde Vollmoeller ihren festen Platz im Pariser Netzwerk der Klassischen Moderne.
The edition makes accessible for the first time the complete correspondence between the collector and founder of the Folkwang Museum Karl Ernst Osthaus and the painters Henri Matisse and Hans Purrmann. The correspondence thus opens up new sources on the early reception history of Matisse's works in Germany, on the genesis of early major works by the painter, and on the founding of the Académie Matisse. The edition of the widely scattered correspondence offers numerous new insights not only for Matisse research, but also for the study of Hans Purrmann and the founder of the Folkwang Museum. The correspondence is supplemented by a foreword from the Hans Purrmann Archive as well as an introduction by the editors, an index of persons, and a bibliography.
- The scientific study of the correspondence offers a variety of new insights into Matisse, Osthaus, and Purrmann.
- Numerous previously unpublished letters
- The volume continues the series of the Purrmann Edition
After 1945, Hans Purrmann promoted the reawakening art and cultural life of the Palatinate with great commitment. One of his important contacts was the SPD politician and managing director of the Palatinate Secession, Willibald Gänger. Their correspondence, dating from 1950–1960, is now available for the first time. The letters, supplemented by six source texts, provide information about Purrmann’s involvement in the planning of the Palatinate Secession and describe his relationship with fellow painter Rolf Müller-Landau. They are a valuable addition to our understanding of 1950s art, providing many indirect glimpses of Purrmann’s network in post-war culture, as well as the Deutscher Künstlerbund’s projects and the dispute between abstraction and representation virulent at that time.
- Important addition to the series "Edition Purrmann Briefe"
- The book documents painter and graphic artist Hans Purrmann’s intense commitment to German post-war culture
- New, previously unpublished source material for Purrmann research
Hans Purrmann und Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann zählen zu den bedeutenden Malerpaaren der Klassischen Moderne. Der Diskurs mit anderen Künstlerpaaren ihrer Zeit eröffnet ein Spektrum vielfältiger Lebensbilder. Rollenverteilung in Partnerschaft und Familie sowie Ausbildung, Alltag der künstlerischen Arbeit oder Stellung im Ausstellungswesen sind spannende Aspekte moderner Kunstgeschichte.
Hochkarätige Spezialist/-innen beleuchten Leben und Werk von Sabine und Reinhold Lepsius, Marg und Oskar Moll, Leo von König und Mathilde Tardif, Carl Casper und Maria Caspar-Filser, Wassily Kandinsky und Gabriele Münter, Alexej von Jawlensky und Marianne von Werefkin sowie Max Beckmann und Minna Tube. In diesem imposanten Panorama der Avantgarde werden neben der Genderproblematik auch Netzwerke der Moderne sichtbar.
