Hans Purrmann is one of the most important German painters of the first half of the 20th century.
A contemporary of Pablo Picasso, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee and Max Beckmann, he developed his very own style in the “interplay of colours,” as Hermann Hesse wrote in a poem dedicated to the artist.
It is especially the strongly coloured still lifes and landscapes that art connoisseurs appreciate and admire. Hans Purrmann was the most powerful representative of the German Matisse school and distinguished himself by a luminous colour painting full of harmony and light.