Winners at Lake Lugano and Brooklands
The German painter Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) is described by Bénézit as an artist who was heavily influenced by Matisse (with whom he had contact in Paris from 1906-1914), but who lacked the greater artist’s “sense de lumière et de la couleur”.
Purrmann spent his latter years in Switzerland, living in Montagnola in the former home of the Nobel…