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. The resulting close friendship with Henri Matisse and the many mutual visits before the First World War – in Paris, Collioure, Munich and Berlin – helped French Fauvism to quickly cause a sensation in Germany and be received by open-minded progressive artists.

The exhibition shows the four artists with 25 works each and thus traces their similarities and individualities. In addition, there are carefully selected works by Lovis Corinth and Henri Matisse, decisive sources of inspiration for the two fatefully linked couples.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Imhof Verlag.
Edited by Roman Zieglgänsberger for the Museum Wiesbaden with the collaboration of Felix Billeter. With contributions by Felix Billeter, Sibylle Discher, Maria Leitmeyer, Julie Kennedy and Roman Zieglgänsberger
256 pages, approx. 160 illustrations
Price: 32,00 €

Museum Wiesbaden
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2
65185 Wiesbaden

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