2 lithographs on wove paper
Germany, circa 1948
Carl Hofer (1878-1955) – German painter and graphic artist
Each titled (by another hand?) ‘Schädel’ und ‘Pferdeschädel’ in pencil
Catalogue raisonné: L 141 and 142 I (from II)
Plate dimensions: 19.5 x 24.7 cm and 15.7 x 19 cm resp.; sheet dimensions: 30.6 x 43 cm and 30.8 x 43.5 cm resp.

Condition:

Both lithographs bear occasional small defects and a tear each (0.5 cm and 1.3 cm) to the edges as well as occasional creases and faint stains. The sheets are faintly toned. The overall condition is good consistent with age. The images measure 19.5 x 24.7 cm and 15.7 x 19 cm resp., the sheets 30.6 x 43 cm and 30.8 x 43.5 cm.



Carl Hofer (1878-1955)

Carl (or Karl) Hofer first studied at the Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe before traveling to Rome and Paris, where he became acquainted with the naive paintings by Henri Rousseau and later the work by the French Impressionist Cézanne, as also El Greco. In 1913 Hofer settled in Berlin and taught at the art school in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1928 a large retrospective took place at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, the Berlin Secession and the Berlin gallery of Alfred Flechtheim. During the Third Reich his art was classified as ‘degenerate’. Hofer was prohibited from working and exhibiting. In 1943 almost his entire oeuvre was destroyed during a bomb attack. After the war he was appointed director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. Hofer was an exponent of the realist tradition. His oeuvre occupies a special position within classical modernism. His work is defined on the one hand by his pursuit of an ideal classical form, which can be seen in his landscapes, still lifes and interiors, and on the other hand by the unadorned representation of the real world, as depicted in his visionary paintings and melancholic portraits of women. (fea)

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