Exhibitions – Hans-Purrmann-Archiv

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.

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.

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.

Friends of the modern age. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff – Emy Roeder – Hans Purrmann

Museum Purrmann-Haus Speyer
September 30, 2023 – April 1, 2024

Friendship is one of the great themes of humanity. Especially in the first half of the 20th century, which was characterized by historical and social upheaval, friendship became an existential value in society.
The special exhibition “Friends of Modernism” at the Museum Purrmann-Haus in Speyer not only shows numerous great works by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976), Emy Roeder (1890-1971) and Hans Purrmann (1880-1966), but also tells stories of different lives, contemporary events and true friendship.

Purrmann SEEWEIT

Galerie Bodenseekreis, Meersburg – Museum Langenargen – Galerie in der Lände Kressbronn
July 14 – November 5, 2023

“Purrmann SEEWEIT” is the name of the exhibition cooperation along the northern shore of Lake Constance. With the Galerie Bodenseekreis Meersburg, the Kunstmuseum Langenargen and the Galerie in der Lände Kressbronn, three important art galleries in the region are joining forces for the first time. They pay tribute to the painter Hans Purrmann and his wife, the artist Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann. From July, a whole “Purrmann cosmos” can be experienced on Lake Constance. The opening of the exhibition in Meersburg on July 14 will be the “starting signal”.