Purrmann, Hans

Description:

Speyer, 1880 - Basel, 1966
60 x 73 cm, R.
"Montagnola mit Blick gegen Ponte Tresa", 1956. Oil on canvas. Signed in oil lower right and titled and dated on the stretcher back.
Lenz/Billeter, 232, no. 1956/28 (ill.).
The painting is listed in the archive with no. 100. In the catalogue raisonné it is entitled "Landschaft im Tessin". The archive photo published in the catalogue raisonné shows the painting unsigned. Purrmann often signed his paintings later.
Collection Heidi Vollmoeller, Zürich.
Private property, Tegernsee.
Blaeser Galerie, formerly Düsseldorf (reverse with gallery label).
Private collection, Hamburg.
Private property, Baden-Württemberg, received from the aforementioned by inheritance.