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KARL HOFER (1878-1955)
Dorfstraße
signed with the monogram (lower right); inscribed 'Dorfstraße gehört meiner lieben Frau Liesbeth Hofer' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
24 x 31 7/8 in. (61 x 81 cm.)
Painted circa 1939
Provenance
The artist's estate.
Liesbeth Hofer, to whom bequeathed from the above, until 1975.
Frau Heinicke [friend of Liesbeth Hofer], until 1987.
Elfriede Wirnitzer, Berlin & Baden-Baden.
Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1990.
Literature
Galerie Rosenbach (ed.), Zwischen Tradition und Moderne, Hanover, 1987, no. 61, pp. 48-49 (illustrated).
A.I. Kratz, 'Kunsthandel in Norddeutschland', in Weltkunst, issue 57, Hanover, 15 September 1987, no. 18, p. 2431 (illustrated).
Weltkunst, issue 60, no. 20, 15 October 1990, p. 3332 (illustrated; titled 'Abendliche Unterhaltung am Zaun').
K.B. Wohlert (ed.), Karl Hofer Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. II, Cologne, 2007, no. 1450, p. 272 (illustrated & illustrated vol. I, no. 1450, p. 147).
Exhibited
Selm, Schloss Cappenberg, Karl Hofer September - December 1991, p. 184 (illustrated p. 110).
Wolfsburg, Kunstverein, Karl Hofer Gemälde und Zeichnungen, January - March 1992, no. 20.
Special notice
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