Portrait Head
Carl Hofer (Karlsruhe 1878 - Berlin 1955)
Lot-No. 121
Proceeds : 4.400 €
Watercolour over pencil, 42,5 x 32 cm, lo. middle monogr. CH, on the reverse pencil drawing of a standing female nude, matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of 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 a. 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.
Carl Hofer: Portrait Head
Carl Hofer (Karlsruhe 1878 - Berlin 1955)
Portrait Head
Lot-No. 121
Proceeds : 4.400 €
Watercolour over pencil, 42,5 x 32 cm, lo. middle monogr. CH, on the reverse pencil drawing of a standing female nude, matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of 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 a. 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.
