Hafen von Porto d'Ischia. 1958.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right. 60 x 72.5 cm (23.6 x 28.5 in). [CH].

More works from the Max Niedermayer Collection, Limes-Verlag Wiesbaden, will be offered in the Evening Sale on June 6 and in the Day Sale on June 7, as well as in other auctions throughout the year.

• Longing and inspiration: created during Hans Purrmann's last summer on Ischia.
• In 1960 and 1962, the painting was part of comprehensive solo exhibitions, including the largest to date at the Kunstverein Hanover and, short after, a retrospective at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
• It has been part of a private collection in Rhineland-Palatinate for almost 50 years.
• His colorful depictions of Italy are the artist's most sought-after works on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).

The work is registered at the Hans Purrmann Archiv under the number 467.

PROVENANCE: Dr. Max Niedermayer Collection (1905–1968), Wiesbaden.
Max Niedermayer Estate, Wiesbaden.
Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate (acquired from the above in 1978).
In family ownership since.

EXHIBITION: Der Maler Hans Purrmann. Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphik von 1898-1960, Kunstverein Hanover, October 16–November 20, 1960, cat. no. 151 (illustrated in black-and-white under the title “Hafen, Ischia”).
Hans Purrmann, Haus der Kunst, Munich, March 23–May 20, 1962, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, June 2–July 29, 1962, cat. no. 104 (illustrated in color, plate VI, with the exhibition label on the reverse of the stretcher).
Hans Purrmann. Zum 100. Geburtstag, Museum Langenargen, April 20–September 30, 1980, p. 118 (with full-page illustration and the title “Hafen mit Segelboot,” erroneously dated “1957”).

LITERATURE: Christian Lenz, Felix Billeter, Hans Purrmann. Die Gemälde II. 1935-1966. Catalogue raisonné, Munich 2004, p. 257, catalog no. 1958/06 (illustrated in color).
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Erhard Göpel, Summer on Ischia, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (illustrated on the cover and on illu. no. 12).