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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 30, 2013 | Villa Grisebach Auktionen | Berlin | Ausgewählte Werke | 41 | $****** - ****** | Der Geburtstag |
paintings
110.5 x 151 cm (43.5 x 59.45 in)
oil on canvas
Monogrammed and dated (ligatured) lower right: CH43. Titled in chalk on the upper stretcher bar left: Der Geburtstag
Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne
formerly private collection, Germany
Carl Hofer, exhibition of new works. Berlin, exhibition spaces of the West, 1946, no 3 / New paintings Carl Hofer. Hamburg, Gallery of Art, 1947, no II, 2 / exhibition Carl Hofer. Dusseldorf, Galerie Alex Vömel and Kunstkabinett Hans Trojanski, 1947, no 22 / exhibition Carl Hofer. Göttingen, Rudolf H. stretching gallery, 1947, no 15/11 Hessian Secession Exhibition Centre: Collective exhibition Karl Hofer. In honor of the septuagenarian. Kassel, State Museum and State Art Collection, 1948, cat. no 5 / Carl Hofer. Minden, Kunstverein exhibition hall at the Barracks Simeon, 1950, cat. no 10 / special exhibition Carl Hofer. Witten, Maerkisches Museum, Bochum, Museum, Essen, Folkwang Museum, Duisburg, City Art Museum, and Brunswick, Kunstverein, 1950/51, no 5 / Berlin Festival 1953: Karl Hofer exhibition on the occasion of his 75th Birthday. Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, 1953, cat. no 43 / Karl Hofer. Cologne, architecture gallery, 1968, cat. no 26 ("dinner party") / retrospective exhibition Karl Hofer. Oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints. Cologne, architecture gallery, 1975, cat. no 39 / Karl Hofer, 1878-1955. Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, and Karlsruhe, Baden Art Association, 1978, p. 173, cat. no 145, color illustration p. 174 / Karl Hofer, oil paintings of the years 1918 to 1955. Cologne, architecture gallery, 1978, cat. no 40 / Karl Hofer, painting, graphic art and drawing. Hall, National Gallery Moritzburg, 1978/79, cat. no 222/30 years of art story Pels-Leusden, anniversary exhibition. Berlin, Galerie Pels-Leusden, 1980, cat. no 45 full-page ill. p. 29 / The figure in the work of Karl Hofer, 1878-1955. Oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints. Cologne, architecture gallery, 1982, cat. no 20, ill. / Karl Hofer, from design to the picture. Cologne, architecture gallery, 1984, no 9 / Karlhofer 1878-1955. Berlin, Galerie Michael Haas, 1985, cat. no 10, with color ill. / Teachers and students. Karl Hofer, oil paintings. Paul Hurt, oil paintings, watercolors. Cologne, architecture gallery, 1986, no number, with color ill. / From the collections of the Gallery '91. Munich, Galerie Thomas, 1991, cat. no 42, with color ill. / Karl Hofer Society table. Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts, 1992, cat. no 43 full-page color ill. p. 39 / Karl Hofer, 170 prints and drawings, watercolors, paintings. A Private Collection. Munich, Galerie Thomas, 1996, cat. no 187, with color ill. / Karl Hofer, 9 paintings. Munich, Galerie Thomas, 2001
Erich link: A painter of European rank. Carl Hofer exhibition in Hallensee. In: forward, 11.10.1946, no 154, p. 5 / Hans Eckstein: Carl Hofer's new pictures. In: Badische Zeitung, 05.04.1948, no 35, p. 7 / Werner Langer: In stoic voltage. Karl Hofer - thirty years after his death. In: Der Tagesspiegel, 10.03.1985, no 11998, p. 5 / Karl Hofer. In: World Art, vol. 55, no 4, 15.2.1985, p. 340 / West German Allgemeine Zeitung (Dortmund edition), 16.3.1996, no 65, ill. / Activities. Munich, Galerie Thomas, 2001, with color ill. / R. Müller-Mehlis: anguish and outcry. In: Handelsblatt, 11./12.5.2001, no 91, p. 55
