PURRMANN, HANS1880 Speyer - 1966 Basel


Title: Sitzender Akt, nach links.
Date: 1924.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 55 x 46cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: H.Purrmann.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


The work is registered in the Purrmann Archive, Munich, under the number 366. We would like to thank Dr Felix Billeter for the kind, scientific support.

Provenance:
- Stein Collection, Cologne
- Private collection Baden-Wuerttemberg (since 1971)

Exhibitions:
- Kunstverein Hanover, 1960

Literature:
- Lenz, Christian/Billeter, Felix: Hans Purrmann - Die Gemälde I, 1895-1934, Werkverzeichnis, Munich 2004, cat. rais. no.1924/43, p. 293, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Der Maler Hans Purrmann, Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphiken von 1898 - 1960, Kunstverein Hanover, no. 45, p. 40, ill.


- Hans Purrmann combines his classical formal language with a radiant intensity of colour
- Harmonious interplay of body and ornamental structures
- A rare, artistically significant nude in Purrmann's oeuvre.