Seated Nude (Sitzender Mädchenakt mit erhobenen Armen)
1920 · Drypoint
plate: 7 1/16 x 5 1/8" (18 x 13 cm); sheet: 14 1/4 x 10 15/16" (36.2 x 27.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Hans Purrmann
German, 1880–1966
WA-00022564
Speyer, Germany
PaintingExpressionism
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8
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Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and her Family
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970–1971
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
- Artsy (bulk)Tier 1 · Institutional85%
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Hans Purrmann was a German painter and printmaker active across the twentieth century, known for colorist landscapes and interior scenes executed in oil and watercolor. He studied under Henri Matisse in Paris during the early 1900s, an encounter that shaped his approach to bold, flattened color fields and decorative composition. Based in both France and Germany throughout his career, Purrmann worked in a register between Fauvism and modernist abstraction, favoring intimate domestic subjects and Mediterranean light. His graphic works, particularly his woodcuts and lithographs, demonstrate a mastery of tonal subtlety alongside chromatic intensity.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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Museum of Modern Art
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