Sale: 600 / Evening Sale, Dec. 05. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125001152
Lot 125001152
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125001152
Karl Hofer
Mädchen am Fenster mit Blattpflanzen, Um 1920.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 93,600 - 140,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Karl Hofer
1878 - 1955
Mädchen am Fenster mit Blattpflanzen. Um 1920.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed (in ligature) in the lower left. 83.2 x 64.5 cm (32.7 x 25.3 in).
• Expressive and intense portrait from the artist's most productive period.
• Hofer's uniquely ethereal portraits of women are among his most compelling creations.
• Female figures amidst plants constitute an important motif within his oeuvre.
• Similar works are in museum collections such as the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, and the Belvedere in Vienna.
We are grateful to Mr. Markus H. Stötzel and the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim for their kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Paul Cassirer, Berlin (on commission, July to December 1921).
Flechtheim Gallery, Berlin (with the gallery label on the stretcher).
Private collection, Hamburg.
Private collection, New York.
Private collection, northern Germany.
EXHIBITION: Karl Hofer. Gemälde, Bad Godesberg, April 1965, cat. no. 14 (titled "Mädchens im Fenstersims aufgestützt", dated around 1930).
LITERATURE: Karl Bernhard Wohlert (ed.), Markus Eisenbeis (pub.), Karl Hofer. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. 2, Cologne 2008, CR no. 403 (illustrated in black and white).
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Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, 1955, p. 108, lot 1241 (illustrated, plate 42, on the stretcher with the label).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, 25th auction, 1956, p. 47, lot 368 ( illustrated, plate 26, with the title “Halbfigur , dated ca. 1930).
"Girls and young women, whether alone, in pairs, or in groups; outdoors, indoors, at windows, with plants and flowers; standing, sitting, or reclining—all these variations form motifs that could not be more typical of Karl Hofer's paintings."
Karl-Heinz Weis, Karl Hofers Mädchen mit Blumen, in: ex. cat. Karl Hofer. Von Lebensspuk und stiller Schönheit, Hamburg 2012, p. 114.
1878 - 1955
Mädchen am Fenster mit Blattpflanzen. Um 1920.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed (in ligature) in the lower left. 83.2 x 64.5 cm (32.7 x 25.3 in).
• Expressive and intense portrait from the artist's most productive period.
• Hofer's uniquely ethereal portraits of women are among his most compelling creations.
• Female figures amidst plants constitute an important motif within his oeuvre.
• Similar works are in museum collections such as the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, and the Belvedere in Vienna.
We are grateful to Mr. Markus H. Stötzel and the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim for their kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Paul Cassirer, Berlin (on commission, July to December 1921).
Flechtheim Gallery, Berlin (with the gallery label on the stretcher).
Private collection, Hamburg.
Private collection, New York.
Private collection, northern Germany.
EXHIBITION: Karl Hofer. Gemälde, Bad Godesberg, April 1965, cat. no. 14 (titled "Mädchens im Fenstersims aufgestützt", dated around 1930).
LITERATURE: Karl Bernhard Wohlert (ed.), Markus Eisenbeis (pub.), Karl Hofer. Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. 2, Cologne 2008, CR no. 403 (illustrated in black and white).
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Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, 1955, p. 108, lot 1241 (illustrated, plate 42, on the stretcher with the label).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, 25th auction, 1956, p. 47, lot 368 ( illustrated, plate 26, with the title “Halbfigur , dated ca. 1930).
"Girls and young women, whether alone, in pairs, or in groups; outdoors, indoors, at windows, with plants and flowers; standing, sitting, or reclining—all these variations form motifs that could not be more typical of Karl Hofer's paintings."
Karl-Heinz Weis, Karl Hofers Mädchen mit Blumen, in: ex. cat. Karl Hofer. Von Lebensspuk und stiller Schönheit, Hamburg 2012, p. 114.
125001152
Karl Hofer
Mädchen am Fenster mit Blattpflanzen, Um 1920.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 80,000 - 120,000
$ 93,600 - 140,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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