HOFER, KARL1878 Karlsruhe - 1955 Berlin


Title: Untitled.
Date: Ca. 1912.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Mounting: Relined.
Measurement: 35 x 54cm.
Notation: Monogrammed lower right: CH (ligated).
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Private collection Bavaria
- Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 441st auction, 1954, lot 141
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
- Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, 32nd auction, 21./22.11.1958, lot 366 (ill. panel 16)
- Collection Konrad und Annalise Hager, Hamburg
- Private collection USA (from family ownership)
- Private collection Southern Germany

Exhibitions:
- Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt a.M. 1915, no. 10
- Kunsthalle Basel, 1916, no. 117
- Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt a.M. 1917, no. 13
- Kunstsalon Emil Richter, Dresden ca. 1917, no. 14

Literature:
- Wohlert, Karl Bernhard: Karl Hofer - Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. 2, VAN HAM Art Publications, Cologne 2007, cat. rais. no. 212, ill.
- Art prize directory, 14, Munich 1958/59, p. 312 (here titled with "Zwei weibliche Akte am Strand").