HOFER, KARL1878 Karlsruhe - 1955 Berlin


Title: Old lady.
Date: 1947.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Mounting: Relined.
Measurement: 38 x 30,5cm.
Notation: Monogrammed and dated upper right: CH (ligated) 47.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


Provenance:
- Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 272nd auction, 1988, lot 525
- Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 172nd auction, 1992, lot 603
- Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 758th auction, 1998, lot 821
- Michael Zeller, auction 21st June 2002, lot 245
- Nagel, Stuttgart, auction 18th October 2002, lot 528
- Private collection
- Dorotheum, Salzburg, auction 5 June 2003, lot 548
- Private collection, South Germany

Exhibitions:
- Magistrate of Greater Berlin, 1948

Literature:
- Wohlert, Karl Bernhard: Karl Hofer - Catalogue raisonné of paintings, vol. 3, VAN HAM Art
Publications, Cologne 2007, cat. rais. no. 1996, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Karl Hofer, Magistrate of Greater Berlin, 1948, no. 44
- Adolf Jannasch: Carl Hofer, in: Bildende Kunst. Zeitschrift für Malerei, Graphik, Plastik und Architektur, vol. 2, 1948, p. 7, ill.
- Karl Hofer. Aus Leben und Kunst (= Die Kunst unserer Zeit), vol. 7, Berlin 1952, plate 46, ill.