Karl Hofer

Karl Hofer 1878 - 1955 Schlafender Akt. 1908. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the wet paint in the lower left. 50.5 x 70 cm (19.8 x 27.5 in). [KA]. • An intimate nude painting in harmonious colors from the artist’s early creative period. • With a gently nuanced brushstroke, Hofer creates a dreamy atmosphere. • Created shortly after his move to Paris. • This early phase clearly reveals his interest in the human body, in a dialogue between tradition and modernity that spans Velázquez, Paul Cézanne, and Picasso. • Other nude paintings by Karl Hofer are held in major museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Albertina in Vienna. PROVENANCE: Dr. Krenz Collection, Cologne. Private collection, Düsseldorf. Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired in 1997, Grisebach). Dietmar Manke Collection, Schleswig-Holstein (acquired in 2004, Grisebach). EXHIBITION: . EXHIBITION: Karl Hofer. Anmut, Elegie und äußerste Härte. Exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of his death, Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin, April 5–May 21, 2005, pp. 40ff. (with color ill.). LITERATURE: Karl Bernhard Wohlert (ed.), Markus Eisenbeis (publ.), Karl Hofer. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, vol. 2, Cologne 2008, CR no. 124 (with b/w illustration). - - Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 113th Auction, Prints, Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, June 2, 1962, Lot 649 (with illustration). Die Weltkunst, Vol. XXXIX, No. 10, Munich 1969, p. 568 (with illustration). Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 168th Auction, Modern Art, June 6, 1969, lot 526 (with color illustration on p. 113). Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 180th Auction, Modern Art, June 4, 1971, lot 805 (with color illustration on p. 161). Kunstpreisjahrbuch, vol. 26, Munich 1970/71, p. 407. Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 206th Auction, Modern Art, June 6, 1975, lot 665 (with color illustration on p. 233). Kunstpreisjahrbuch, vol. 30, Munich 1974/75, p. 441. Grisebach, Berlin, 56th Auction, Select Works, May 30, 1997, lot 12 (with illustration). Grisebach, Berlin, 117th Auction, Select Works, June 11, 2004, lot 15 (with illustration). “Hofer’s paintings are sounds, not melodies; their beauty is indefinite, even non-individual. Yet they all also show a longing for a new sense of definition. Hofer’s talent, like that of all German-Romans, lies in Hesperia; but what makes him significant is that he wishes to live in Hesperia as an Impressionist.” Karl Scheffler, quoted from: Karl Hofer, in: Kunst und Künstler, Illustrated Monthly Journal for Art and Arts and Crafts, vol. XII, Berlin 1914, p. 468 Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 13.54 h +/- 20 min.

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