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This picture shows the following artwork: Karl Hofer. ”Paar am Fenster”. 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Karl Hofer. ”Paar am Fenster”. 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Karl Hofer. ”Paar am Fenster”. 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Karl Hofer. ”Paar am Fenster”. 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Karl Hofer. ”Paar am Fenster”. 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Karl Hofer. ”Paar am Fenster”. 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Karl Hofer. ”Paar am Fenster”. 1925.
This picture shows the following artwork: Karl Hofer. ”Paar am Fenster”. 1925.
115 Karl Hofer

Karlsruhe 1878 – 1955 Berlin

”Paar am Fenster”. 1925

Oil on canvas. 100 × 83 cm (39 ⅜ × 32 ⅝ in.). Monogrammed and dated lower left: CH 1925. On the reverse, on the decorative frame a label of the exhibition Munich 1962 (see below). There too a label with the no. 14240. Catalogue raisonné: Wohlert 640. [3101] Framed

Provenance

Provenance: 1927 by Carl Georg Heise exchanged with another painting from the artist for the Behnhaus Lübeck / 14.7.1937 confiscated from the Behnhaus Lübeck as „entartet“ [degenerate], EK-no.: 14240 / Walter Bauer, Fulda (from 1940, thence by descent to the present owner)

Addendum/Erratum

Provenance: 1927 by Carl Georg Heise exchanged with another painting from the artist for the Behnhaus Lübeck / 14.7.1937 confiscated from the Behnhaus Lübeck as „entartet“ [degenerate], EK-no.: 14240 / Bernhard A. Böhmer, Güstrow / Walter Bauer, Fulda (acquired 1940 of the above-mentioned, thence by descent to the present owner)

EUR 120,000

 

- 150,000

USD 141,000

 

- 176,000

Sold for:

152,400 EUR (incl. premium)

Auction 370

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Exhibition

Frühjahrsausstellung. Berlin, Akademie der Künste, 1925, cat. no. 85, ill. / Internationale Kunstausstellung. Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1925, cat. no. 213 / 25th Annual International Exhibition of Paintings. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1925, cat. no. 162 ("Couple at the Window") / Carl Hofer and Ernesto de Fiori. Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, 1927, cat. no. 24 / Das Problem der Generation. Die circa 1880 geborenen Meister von heute. Part 1: Die Deutschen. Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, 1927, p. 10, cat. no. 57 / Europäische Kunst der Gegenwart. Zentenarausstellung des Kunstvereins Hamburg, 1927, p. 26, cat. no. 69, ill. / Carl Hofer und Ernesto de Fiori. Dusseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1927, p. 5, cat. no. 40 / Karl Hofer. Das gesammelte Werk. Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, 1928, p. 14, cat. no. 123 / Karl Hofer. Berlin / Kollektivausstellung Karl Hofer. Berlin, Berliner Secession and Galerie Flechtheim, 1928, p. 15, cat. no. 54 / Entartete Kunst – Bildersturm vor 25 Jahren. Munich, Haus der Kunst, 1962, cat. no. 53, ill. / Kunstdiktatur gestern und heute. Berlin, Galerie Ben Wargin, 1963, ill. p. 42

Literature and illustration

Der Querschnitt, vol. 6. 1926, issue 9, ill. after p. 704 / Bruno Erich Werner: Karl Hofer. In: Die Kunst for alle. Vol. 42, issue 7, 1926/27, ill. p. 204 / Die Kunst für alle. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, vol. 42, 1927/28, vol. 2, issue 10, pl. between p. 400/401 ("Am Fenster") / Anton Mayer: Karl Hofer. In: National-Zeitung, Berlin, no. 265, 11.11.1928 / Gustav Hartlaub: Karl Hofer. In: Illustrirte Zeitung, Leipzig, no. 4360, 1928, ill. p. 502 / Oscar Bie: Letter from Berlin. In: Apollo, vol. 9, Jan. 1929, p. 46 / Carl Georg Heise: Karl Hofer zum 50. Geburtstag. In: Kunst and Künstler, vol. 27, 1929, ill. p. 55 / Kurt Martin: Mannheim, Kunsthalle: Karl Hofer. In: Kunst and Künstler, vol. 27, 1929, S.76 / Gustav Hartlaub: Karl Hofer, ein badischer Maler. In: Ekkart, 12.1931, ill. p. 23 ("Liebespaar") / Carl Georg Heise (ed.): Lübecker Kunstpflege 1920–1933. Lübeck, 1934, p. 86, no. 114, ill. / Arnold and Anneliese von Borsig: Privatkatalog der Sammlung Walter Bauer. Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag, [1941], n. p., ill. / Karl Hofer: Und Gipsfiguren weinen. In: Sonntagsblatt, Hamburg, no. 34, 22.8.1954, ill. p. 7 / Heinz Braun: Karl Hofer. Seebruck, Heering Verlag, 1971, p. 4, ill. 4 / Walter Laqueur: Weimar, A Cultural History 1918–1933. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974, p. 168 / Jenns E. Howoldt: Bildersturm in the Behnhaus. Lübeck, Museum Behnhaus, 1987, p. 1 and ill. 10

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