Sale: 591 / Day Sale, June 07. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125000252
Lot 125000252 
125000252
Karl Hofer
Stehender Mädchenakt vor Rot, 1954.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 18,000 - 24,000
$ 19,440 - 25,920
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Stehender Mädchenakt vor Rot. 1954.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed and dated in the lower right. 99.5 x 70 cm (39.1 x 27.5 in). [AW].
• A striking nude that impresses with its combination of melancholy and expressive coloring.
• Karl Hofer's uniquely ethereal female portraits are among the artist's most compelling creations.
• In the post-war years, Hofer was able to build on his earlier successes. His paintings were part of the legendary exhibition “German Art of the 20th Century” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1957.
PROVENANCE: From the estate of the artist (estate no. 542 (handwritten number on a label on the stretcher), Wirnitzer list no. 27 .
Kunsthandel Gerd Köhrmann, estate of Karl Hofer, Cologne (on consignment, gallery label on the reverse of the stretcher).
Private collection, South Germany.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2002).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 2011).
EXHIBITION: Karl Hofer. Widergewonnene Verluste. Bilder aus den letzten Jahren, Galerie Andreas Baumgartl, Munich, April 27–June 23, 2001 (“Tänzer,” illustrated in color on pp. 74–75).
LITERATURE: Karl Bernhard Wohlert (ed.), Markus Eisenbeis (ed.), Karl Hofer. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, vol. 3, Cologne 2007, WVZ no. 2719 (illustrated in black and white).
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Villa Grisebach Auctions, Berlin, 101st auction, June 8, 2002, lot 311 (illustrated in color).
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed and dated in the lower right. 99.5 x 70 cm (39.1 x 27.5 in). [AW].
• A striking nude that impresses with its combination of melancholy and expressive coloring.
• Karl Hofer's uniquely ethereal female portraits are among the artist's most compelling creations.
• In the post-war years, Hofer was able to build on his earlier successes. His paintings were part of the legendary exhibition “German Art of the 20th Century” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1957.
PROVENANCE: From the estate of the artist (estate no. 542 (handwritten number on a label on the stretcher), Wirnitzer list no. 27 .
Kunsthandel Gerd Köhrmann, estate of Karl Hofer, Cologne (on consignment, gallery label on the reverse of the stretcher).
Private collection, South Germany.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2002).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 2011).
EXHIBITION: Karl Hofer. Widergewonnene Verluste. Bilder aus den letzten Jahren, Galerie Andreas Baumgartl, Munich, April 27–June 23, 2001 (“Tänzer,” illustrated in color on pp. 74–75).
LITERATURE: Karl Bernhard Wohlert (ed.), Markus Eisenbeis (ed.), Karl Hofer. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, vol. 3, Cologne 2007, WVZ no. 2719 (illustrated in black and white).
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Villa Grisebach Auctions, Berlin, 101st auction, June 8, 2002, lot 311 (illustrated in color).
125000252
Karl Hofer
Stehender Mädchenakt vor Rot, 1954.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 18,000 - 24,000
$ 19,440 - 25,920
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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