After 1945 Hans Purrmann promoted the reawakening art and cultural life of the Palatinate with
great commitment. One of his important contacts was the SPD politician and managing director of
the Palatinate Secession Willibald Gänger. Their correspondence dating from 1950-1960 is now
available for the first time. The letters supplemented by six source texts provide
information about Purrmann's involvement in the planning of the Palatinate Secession and
describe his relationship with fellow painter Rolf Müller-Landau. They are a valuable addition
to our understanding of 1950s art providing many indirect glimpses of Purrmann's network in
post-war culture as well as the Deutscher Künstlerbund's projects and the dispute between
abstraction and representation virulent at that time. Important addition to the series Edition
Purrmann Briefe The book documents painter and graphic artist Hans Purrmann's intense
commitment to German post-war culture New previously unpublished source material for Purrmann
research
