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Purrmann’s world in the light of photography: Matisse, Liebermann, Rilke & Co.

Museum Purrmann-Haus, Speyer
October 12, 2024 – April 27, 2025

The exhibition is dedicated to the personalities from the illustrious artistic, social and family network of Hans Purrmann and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann. Many of these personalities, such as Henri Matisse, Max Liebermann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Leo von König, Lovis Corinth, Karl Vollmoeller, Hermann Hesse, Josephine Baker, Erich Kästner and Tilla Durieux, were among the favorite subjects of leading photojournalists of their time.

Obituary

Julie Kennedy
20.06.1970 – 15.09.2024

It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to our dear and highly esteemed colleague Julie Kennedy.

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.

Purrmann’s world in the light of photography: Matisse, Liebermann, Rilke & Co.

Obituary

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

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