Karl Hofer | "Nocturno"

HOFER, KARL
1878 Karlsruhe - 1955 Berlin

Title: "Nocturno".
Date: 1952.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 88 x 62cm.
Notation: Monogrammed and dated lower right: CH 52. Additionally verso on the stretcher signed and titled: K. Hofer Nocturno.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.

Provenance:
- Artist's estate
- Galerie E. Wirnitzer, Baden-Baden
- Private collection Allgäu
- Private collection Baden-Württemberg

Exhibitions:
- Goslarer Museum, 1953
- Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin 1953
- Kunstverein Freiburg, 1954
- Märkisches Museum, Witten 1954
- Osthaus-Museum, Hagen 1954/55, list 1, no. 19

Literature:
- Wohlert, Karl Bernhard: Karl Hofer, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Vol. 3, VAN HAM Art
Publications, Cologne 2007, cat. rais. no. 2452, ill.
- Exhib.-Cat. Karl Hofer, Goslarer Museum, Goslar 1953, cat. no. 18
- Exhib.-Cat. Karl Hofer - Anlässlich seines 75. Geburtstages, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin 1953, cat. no. 166
- Exhib.-Cat. Carl Hofer, Kunstverein Freiburg, 1954, cat no. 50
- Exhib.-Cat. Carl Hofer, Märkisches Museum, Witten 1954, cat. no. 20, p. 4
- Exhib.-Cat. Überblick über das Gesamtwerk Karl Hofer seit 1945, Osthaus-Museum, Hagen 1954/55, cat. no. 19.

In 2008, VAN HAM Art Publications published the three-volume catalogue raisonné of Karl Hofer's paintings by Karl Bernhard Wohlert. In 2012, VAN HAM Art Publications founds the Karl Hofer Committee and in 2015, VAN HAM Art Publications presents the catalogue raisonné of sketchbooks.
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