Purrmann House

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Purrmann House in Speyer
Portrait stele of Hans Purrmann in Langenargen

The Purrmann House is a museum dedicated to the painter Hans Purrmann (1880–1966) in Kleine Greifengasse 14 in the old town of Speyer . The building is a listed building .

history

The property of the Purrmann House was built with a residential and workshop building in 1829 after it had been merged from two smaller properties and a previous building had been demolished. After a fire in 1876, it was rebuilt largely unchanged. In 1877 Georg Heinrich Purrmann, Hans Purrmann's father, acquired the property and set up his painting and whitewashing business there. Hans Purrmann was born in the house three years later. There he spent his youth and his apprenticeship in his father's business. After the death of his father, his brother Heinrich Christian Purrmann took over the business and the property. In 1977 it was sold by his son Wilhelm Purrmann and came to the city of Speyer in 1986.

In 1990 the city of Speyer, in cooperation with the Kunstverein Speyer, set up a memorial for the painter and his wife, the painter Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann , in Purrmann's birthplace .

Building description

The building consists of a main house oriented towards the Kleine Greifengasse, an auxiliary building and a shed that has been converted into a painting workshop and encloses the courtyard. Under the main house there are older barrel-vaulted cellars, which could possibly be dated before the city's destruction in 1689. The late-classical facade of traufständigen main house is sandstone elements divided. The courtyard entrance is to the right of the main house.

exhibition

In addition to showcases that document and illustrate the lives of Hans Purrmann and Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann, around seventy exhibits from the work of the two artists ( paintings , prints , watercolors , sculptures ) are shown in a permanent exhibition . In addition, there are temporary exhibitions in the Purrmann-Haus by various artists who were friends with Purrmann or who were influenced by his work. Attached to the museum is an archive that primarily collects Purrmann's correspondence.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Dellwing : Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 1: Speyer . Wernersche Verlagsanstalt, Worms 1985. ISBN 3-590-31031-6

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Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 6.6 "  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 5.4"  E