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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 9, 2023 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 22 | $****** - ****** | Die Geschwister |
paintings
100 x 65 cm (39.37 x 25.59 in)
Oil on canvas
Monogrammed in lower right. Stretcher with an old label with the inscription "Karl Hofer / Zwei Kinder / 3"
Hermann Baumgarten, Stuttgart (1928). Private collection Baden-Württemberg (presumably acquired from the above, family-owned for more than 90 years).
• Early exhibition history: in 1928/29 shown at the acclaimed Hofer exhibitions at Kunsthalle Mannheim (1928) and the Kunsthaus Zürich (1929), as well as in exhibitions at the Berlin and the Badische Secession. • Rediscovered: privately-owned for nearly 100 years. • As early as in 1949, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired the similar painting "Jüngling mit Melone" (1926/1933) . Zweite Ausstellung Badische Secession / Fünfte Ausstellung Stuttgarter Secession, Neues Ausstellungsgebäude im Schlossgarten, Stuttgart, April 28 - June 10, 1928, p. 9, cat. no. 68 (with illu., p. 25). Karl Hofer. Das gesammelte Werk, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim September 9 - October 21, 1928, p. 13, cat. no. 101. Kollektivausstellung Karl Hofer, catalog for the 55th exhibition of the Berlin Secession, in cooperation with Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin, Nov./Dec. 1928, p. 17, cat. no. 62. Karl Hofer, Kunsthaus Zürich, January 24 - February, 23, 1929, p. 11, cat. no. 48.
K. Martin, Kunsthalle Mannheim: Karl Hofer, in: Kunst und Künstler, 27.1929, p. 76. "I have never created a figuration based on the external nature of accidence. Impressionism did not touch me for this purpose. The ecstasies of Expressionism did not suit me, either. Man and the humane have always been at the heart of my art." Karl Hofer, quoted from: Karl Hofer. Von Lebensspuk und stiller Schönheit, ex. cat. Kunsthalle Emden 2012, p. 14.
Die Geschwister . 1927. Oil on canvas. Wohlert 748. Monogrammed in lower right. Stretcher with an old label with the inscription "Karl Hofer / Zwei Kinder / 3". 100 x 65 cm (39.3 x 25.5 in). [JS]. • High-quality figure portrait from his best creative period. • " Die Geschwister " - intimately connected and yet aloof. • Radical modern aesthetics: a clear-reduced composition in radiant colors.