Sitting Girl
Carl Hofer (Karlsruhe 1878 - Berlin 1955)
Lot-No. 227
Proceeds : 3.400 €
Around 1925. Pencil drawing. 47 x 37,5 cm. Lo. ri. monogr. CH, without frame. - German painter, one of the most important exponents of figurative painting of the first half of the 20th cent. H. studied at the Karlsruhe academy under L. von Kalckreuth and H. Thoma; he then went to Rome. He was among the first members of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München. In 1949 he became head of the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Berlin. Some of his works were exhibited at the first Documenta in Kassel in 1955. Mus.: Berlin, Kassel, Munich, Detroit, Hamburg a. others. Lit.: K. B. Wohlert: K. H. (WVZ), Hartleb, Schilling a. others.
Carl Hofer: Sitting Girl
Carl Hofer (Karlsruhe 1878 - Berlin 1955)
Sitting Girl
Lot-No. 227
Proceeds : 3.400 €
Around 1925. Pencil drawing. 47 x 37,5 cm. Lo. ri. monogr. CH, without frame. - German painter, one of the most important exponents of figurative painting of the first half of the 20th cent. H. studied at the Karlsruhe academy under L. von Kalckreuth and H. Thoma; he then went to Rome. He was among the first members of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München. In 1949 he became head of the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Berlin. Some of his works were exhibited at the first Documenta in Kassel in 1955. Mus.: Berlin, Kassel, Munich, Detroit, Hamburg a. others. Lit.: K. B. Wohlert: K. H. (WVZ), Hartleb, Schilling a. others.
