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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 7, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Day Sale | 261 | $****** - ****** | Blumenstrauß in grauer Vase (Zinnien) |
paintings
56 x 50.5 cm (22.05 x 19.88 in)
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed in the lower right
Dr. Bruno Leiner Collection (1890-1954), Konstanz (purchased directly from the artist, in family ownership ever since).
Deutsche Kunst unserer Zeit, Kulturbund Überlingen, October 20-November 11, 1945, cat. no. 59. Neue Deutsche Kunst , Kunstwoche der Stadt Kontanz, June 1-30, 1946, cat. no. 116. Carl Hofer, Kunstverein Freiburg i. Breisgau, April 15-May 14, 1954, cat. no. 1. Karl Hofer. Memorial Exhibition, Kunstverein Konstanz, Wessenberghaus, October 2-November 20, 1955, cat. no. 13. Rückkehr der Moderne (Return of Modernism). The first post-war exhibition of ostracized German art, Städtische Galerie “Fauler Pelz,” Überlingen, September 10-November 5, 1995; Vonderau Museum, Fulda, November 11, 1995-January 14, 1996; Baden-Württemberg State Representation, Bonn, January 18-February 13, 1996; State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, January 23-February 16, 1996, cat. no. 41. Konturen neuer Kunst. Konstanzer Kunstwochen 1946, Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz, September 7-October 6, 1996, cat. no. 41. Karl Hofer am Bodensee, Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz, May 25-July 6, 2003. Moderne am Bodensee. Walter Kaesbach und sein Kreis, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Singen, September 27-December 7, 2008; Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz, September 27, 2008-January 11, 2009.
Karl Bernhard Wohlert, Karl Hofer. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, vol. 2, Cologne 2008, no. 1053 (illustrated in b/w). Called up: June 7, 2025 - ca. 17.34 h +/- 20 min.
Karl Hofer
Blumenstrauß in grauer Vase (Zinnien)
1933.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed in the lower right. 56 x 50.5 cm (22 x 19.8 in). [AW].
• One of the rare flower still lifes in Hofer"s pictorial oeuvre.
• A lyrical, melancholic summer flower bouquet with clarity typical of New Objectivity bathed in atmospheric light.
• Still lifes served as an ideal pictorial retreat for Hofer during this turbulent period of his life.
• Bruno Leiner and Karl Hofer were close friends, and the work has been in possession of the same family since its creation in the fateful year of 1933
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