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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 7, 2019 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Art of the 20/21 Century I | 166 | $****** - ****** | Liebespaar 2 |
paintings
100 x 71 cm (39.37 x 27.95 in)
Oil on canvas
Lower right monogrammed and dated. With hand-written inscription "Karl Hofer Liebespaar" on the stretcher
Galerie M. Haas, Berlin.
Private collection Berlin.
Galerie Koch, Hanover (with a label on the frame).
Private collection Lower Saxony.
Carl Hofer, Museum Goslar, October 4 - October 18, 1953, no. 6 (?).
Carl Hofer, Märkisches Museum, Witten/ Ruhr, July 4 - July 25, 1954, no. 10.
Carl Hofer, Osthaus Museum Hagen, December 12 - January 9, 1954/ 55, no. 13.
Liebespaar 2. 1950.
Oil on canvas.
Wohlert 2331. Lower right monogrammed and dated. With hand-written inscription "Karl Hofer Liebespaar" on the stretcher. 100 x 71 cm (39.3 x 27.9 in).
- Hofer's characterisitc interpretation of a classic motif from art history.
PROVENANCE: Galerie M. Haas, Berlin.
Private collection Berlin.
Galerie Koch, Hanover (with a label on the frame).
Private collection Lower Saxony.
EXHIBITION: Carl Hofer, Museum Goslar, October 4 - October 18, 1953, no. 6 (?).
Carl Hofer, Märkisches Museum, Witten/ Ruhr, July 4 - July 25, 1954, no. 10.
Carl Hofer, Osthaus Museum Hagen, December 12 - January 9, 1954/ 55, no. 13.
"The stronger the urge to create - a burning desire to visualize sensation - the more implacable the form it can find expression in has to be Not in form of something that comes close or is an exaggeration, but through a clear simplification that explains everything.
Karl Hofer, quote after: Janni Müller Hauck, Karl Hofer Versuch einer Interpretation, from: Karl Hofer. Ex. cat.: Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, April 16 - June 14, 1978. p. 31.
