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Karl Hofer

Karlsruhe 1878 – 1955 Berlin

„Auf der Treppe (mit Engel)“. Circa 1947/48

Oil on canvas. 116,5 x 90,5 cm (45 ⅞ x 35 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Karl Hofer. „Auf der Treppe (mit Engel)“. Circa 1947/48.

Estimate:

EUR 40,000

 

- 50,000

USD 58,800

 

- 73,500

Sold for:

49,980 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 168-171

19th, 20th and 21st Century Art, Saturday, 28.11.2009

Information

Oil on canvas. 116,5 x 90,5 cm (45 ⅞ x 35 ⅝ in.). On the reverse upper left the stamp in black resp. in red confirmed by Elisabeth Hofer: NACHLASS KARL HOFER; inscribed with pen in black: 443. Catalogue raisonné: Wohlert 2059. Framed

Estate of the artist / Private collection, Berlin (temporary loan to Kunsthalle Emden)

Karl Hofer, 1878–1955. Ölbilder, Zeichnungen, Lithographien. Frankfurt a. M., Frankfurter Westend-Galerie, 1974, cat. no. 20 / Karl Hofer, 1878 – 1955. Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, and Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein, 1978, cat. no. 207, p. 176, colour illustration p. 388 / Der gekrümmte Horizont, Kunst in Berlin 1945–1967. Berlin, Interessengemeinschaft Berliner Kunsthändler, Akademie der Künste, 1980, p. 117, full-page ill. p. 47 (dated 1954)

P. Wöhler: Von Himmelsboten und Flügelpuppen. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, 24 Dec. 1991, no. 298, supplement (colour ill. of a detail)

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