(Karlsruhe 1878–1955 Berlin)
Mädchen sich kämmend (Girl combing her hair) around 1938 (?), signed with monogram CH, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, framed

Provenance:
Reinhart Collection, Winterthur (label on the reverse)
The heirs
Lempertz, Cologne, 11 & 12 June 1963, lot 290
Lempertz, Cologne, 24 & 25 November 1972, lot 427
Private Collection, Germany

Exhibited:
Probably Winterthur, Karl Hofer zum 60. Geburtstag, Kunstverein Winterthur, 5 February - 12 March 1939, exh. cat. page 2, no 31
Berlin, Gedächtnis-Ausstellung für Karl Hofer, Hochschule für bildende Künste, 11 October - 15 November 1956 / Badischer Kunstverein together with the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 9 December 1956 – 6 January 1957, (Text by Karl Hofer) (label on the reverse)

Literature:
Karl Bernhard Wohlert, Markus Eisenbeis, Karl Hofer, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Vol. 2, page 259, no. 1372, ill.

Published in:
Frankfurter Rundschau, no. 124, May 30 1963, ill.
Kunstpreis Jb., 28.1972/73, page 423 (dat. 1939)

Karl Hofer endeavoured to preserve the classical ideal within modernity, with its own language of forms. To this end, Hofer did not strive for aesthetic perfection; instead, he wanted to investigate, by „describing inherent forms“, the essence of things and lend them expression. The assertion, „art does not reproduce the visible, but makes visible“ is applicable to him, even and although he critically evaluated this statement of Paul Klee in relation to its employment in the context of abstraction.
www.karl-hofer.de

Provenance:
Reinhart Collection, Winterthur (label on the reverse)
The heirs
Lempertz, Köln, 11 & 12 June 1963, lot 290
Lempertz, Köln, 24 & 25 November 1972, lot 427
Private Collection, Germany

Exhibited:
Probably Winterthur, Karl Hofer zum 60. Geburtstag, Kunstverein Winterthur, 5 February - 12 March 1939, exh. cat. page 2, no 31
Berlin, Gedächtnis-Ausstellung für Karl Hofer, Hochschule für bildende Künste, 11 October - 15 November 1956 / Badischer Kunstverein together with the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 9 December 1956 – 6 January 1957, (Text from Karl Hofer) (label on the reverse)

Literature:
Karl Bernhard Wohlert, Markus Eisenbeis, Karl Hofer, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Vol. 2, page 259, n° 1372, ill.

Published in:
Frankfurter Rundschau, n° 124, 30 Mai 1963, ill.
Kunstpreis Jb., 28.1972/73, page 423 (dat. 1939)

Karl Hofer endeavoured to preserve the classical ideal within modernity, with its own language of forms. To this end, Hofer did not strive for aesthetic perfection; instead, he wanted to investigate, by „describing inherent forms“, the essence of things and lend them expression. The assertion, „art does not reproduce the visible, but makes visible“ is applicable to him, even and although he critically evaluated this statement of Paul Klee in relation to its employment in the context of abstraction.
www.karl-hofer.de