Im grýnen Kleid. 1943.
Oil on panel.
Wohlert 1643. Upper right monogrammed (in ligature) and dated, scratched into the wet paint. 68 x 49.3 cm (26.7 x 19.4 in).
PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate (no. 225).
Private collection.
Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover.
Private collection North Rhine--Westphalia.
EXHIBITION: Karl Hofer und die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. Museum fýr Bildende Kýnste, Leipzig 1948.
Karl Hofer. Galerie Henning, Halle/Saale, 1949, cat. no. 4 with illu.
LITERATURE: Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 214th auction, 1976, lot 637, with illu.
Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 29th auction, 1977, lot 1308 with illu.
J. Fischer, Heilbronn, 56th auction,1990, lot 735 with illu.
Zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover, cat. 42/1990, page 7, no. 3 with color illu.
"I have never created a form of figuration from pure coincidence. This explains why I was never really touched by Impressionism. The frenzy of Expressionism, however, was not really in my line, either. Man and the humane always have and always will be object of my depiction.ý
(Source: Henkel, Katharina: Karl Hofer. Vom Lebensspuk und stiller Schýnheit, Cologne 2012, p. 14.)