Encouraged to write. Hans Purrmann and the art historian couple Barbara and Erhard Göpel. Correspondence, 1954–1966.
Felix Billeter, Julie Kennedy (✝), Maria Leitmeyer (ed.)
June 2026
Literature
Recent publications
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.
Artist couples of modernism. Hans Purrmann and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann in discourse
Felix Billeter/Maria Leitmeyer (ed.)
2021
Artists and critics. Hans Purrmann and Karl Scheffler in letters 1920-1951
Felix Billeter/Julie Kennedy/Anke Matelowski (eds.)
2021
Stormy times. An artist’s marriage in letters 1915-1943. Hans Purrmann and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann
Felix Billeter/Maria Leitmeyer (ed.)
2020
Longing for the other. An artist’s marriage in letters 1909-1914 Hans Purrmann and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann
Felix Billeter/Maria Leitmeyer (ed.)
2019
Hans Purrmann and Wilhelm Wittmann. Letters 1901-1909
Compiled by Adolf Leisen, Jürgen Vorderstemann
With a text by Felix Billeter
2013
Hermann Hesse – Hans Purrmann. Letters 1945-1962
Felix Billeter/Eva Zimmermann (ed.)
2011
Catalogues raisonnés
Hans Purrmann. The paintings
Christian Lenz/Felix Billeter (Eds.)
2004
Hans Purrmann. Watercolors and gouaches
Christian Lenz/Felix Billeter (Eds.)
2008
Hans Purrmann. Drawings
Felix Billeter/Pia Dornacher (Eds.)
2014
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Contact
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office@purrmann.com