Refugium Villa Romana. Hans Purrmann in Florence. 1935-1943

Philipp Kuhn (ed.)

Until 1933, Hans Purrmann was one of the most successful modernist painters in Germany. Cassirer and Flechtheim were his dealers – he was famous as a pupil, mediator and friend of Henri Matisse.

In 1935, the 55-year-old Purrmann became director of the Villa Romana in Florence, which Max Klinger had founded as a studio in 1905. The initiators of the appointment were those colleagues with whom Purrmann had recently fought for the last freedoms of art in Berlin. Florence became a place of retreat and creation for him, while the circle of like-minded people who chose the south as their refuge grew from year to year.

The study is based on the cataloging of numerous unknown sources from the artist’s estate as well as from many private and public archives.

392 pages with 70 color and 50 black and white illustrations, 28 x 21 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-422-98025-9
Price: 79,90 €
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