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Lot 54 | Karl Hofer | Im Bad(e)raum

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HOFER, KARL
1878 Karlsruhe - 1955 Berlin

Title: Im Bad(e)raum.
Date: 1942.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 115 x 90,5cm.
Notation: Monogrammed and dated upper right: CH42 (ligiert). Titled verso on the stretcher top left: Mädchengruppe.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.

Provenance:
- Estate Karl Hofer, no. 372 (adhesive label with number on stretcher and lable of the art dealer Gerd Köhrmann - Estate Karl Hofer, Cologne)
- Galerie Elfriede Wirnitzer, Baden-Baden, no. 289 (adhesive label with number on stretcher)
- Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne
- Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
- Private collection Hamburg
- Private collection South Germany

Exhibitions:
- Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin 1953, no. 42
- Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne 1968, no. 24
- Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne 1975, no. 29
- Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne 1978, no. 29
- Galerie Moritzburg, Halle 1978/79, p. 148, no. 69
- Baukunst-Galerie, Cologne 1982, no. 8
- Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin 1985, no. 8

Literature:
- Wohlert, Karl Bernhard: Karl Hofer - Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Volume 2, VAN HAM Art Publications, Cologne 2007, cat. rais. no. 1591, ill.
- Langer, Werner: In stoischer Spannung. Karl Hofer - Dreißig Jahre nach seinem Tod, in: Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), 10.3.1985, p. 5
- Weltkunst, 55.1985, H.3, 1.2., S.197 (display Galerie Haas, Berlin, with ill.)
- Kunsthandel im Rheinland und in Westfalen, in: Weltkunst, 55.1985, no.18 (15.11.), S.2533f., ill.
- Villa Grisebach, Berlin, auction 43, 1995, lot 44, ill.
- Kunstpreis Jb., 50.1995, p. 656

- Multi-layered depiction with high-contrast colouring
- One of the internationally sought-after figure compositions of the 1930s.

Contact:
Hilke Hendriksen
Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art
+49 221 92 58 62 305

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Stock Id: 74000-9

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