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Word formations – claim to interpretation and self-positioning in modernist artists’ writings

Conference at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich
October 10 – October 12, 2024

Organized by Felix Billeter and Julie Kennedy (Hans Purrmann Archives, Munich), Stephanie Marchal (Ruhr University Bochum), Christine Tauber (Central Institute for Art History, Munich) and Andreas Zeising (Technical University Dortmund).

Mixed Doubles – The Molls and the Purrmanns: Two Artist Couples of the Modern Era

Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm
April 26 – August 18, 2024

The artist couples Margarete and Oskar Moll and Mathilde and Hans Purrmann helped shape decisive moments in the development of the European avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century. Shortly after 1900, they were already part of the movement in Berlin that gradually helped German Impressionism to become more expressive.

Hans Purrmann and the art historian couple Barbara and Erhard Göpel. Letters 1954-1966

Felix Billeter and Julie Kennedy (eds.)
Expected publication 2025
The special significance of the correspondence between Hans Purrmann and the art historian couple Barbara and Erhard Göpel lies in the book Life and Opinions of the Painter Hans Purrmann, which they published in 1961 and which remains authoritative to this day, an extensive collection of sources with writings and letters by Hans Purrmann, the genesis of which can be traced on the basis of the correspondence to be edited.

Matisse seems like heaven to me. Hans Purrmann, Karl Ernst Osthaus, Henri Matisse. The correspondence 1907-1919

Rainer Stamm/Gloria Köpnick (ed.)
2024

This edition makes the complete correspondence between the collector and founder of the Folkwang Museum Karl Ernst Osthaus and the painters Henri Matisse and Hans Purrmann accessible for the first time.

Mixed Doubles – The Molls and the Purrmanns: Two Artist Couples of the Modern Era

Museum Wiesbaden
October 13, 2023 – February 18, 2024

Margarete and Oskar Moll as well as Mathilde and Hans Purrmann were important catalysts of the European avant-garde. In Berlin, they were part of the movement shortly after 1900, when German Impressionism was becoming increasingly expressive, and together they founded the highly frequented Académie Matisse in Paris in 1908.

Word formations – claim to interpretation and self-positioning in modernist artists’ writings

Mixed Doubles – The Molls and the Purrmanns: Two Artist Couples of the Modern Era

Hans Purrmann and the art historian couple Barbara and Erhard Göpel. Letters 1954-1966

Matisse seems like heaven to me. Hans Purrmann, Karl Ernst Osthaus, Henri Matisse. The correspondence 1907-1919

Mixed Doubles – The Molls and the Purrmanns: Two Artist Couples of the Modern Era

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