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Watercolor on strong, chamois-colored drawing paper Germany, circa 1948-50 Carl Hofer (1878-1955) - German painter and graphic artist Monogrammed 'CH' lower right Sheet size: 52.7 x 42.3 cm Provenance: Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart; Private collection, Baden-Württemberg A portrait in different color shades featuring Hofer's typical reduced formal language; watercolor by the artist fetch up to €91,000 on the international auction market This watercolor by Carl Hofer depicts the slightly tilted head of a young man. The blue flesh tones of the face are contoured with broad strokes and a yellow shading surrounds the head like a halo. The present work is a lyrical portrait from Hofer's post-war oeuvre, in which the artist comes to terms with his impressions of the war. Despite the predominance of abstraction Hofer held on to the tradition of figurative painting. He created works, which show his pursuit of an aesthetic ideal but also works depicting the harsh reality whereby the human being always occupied a central position in his oeuvre. The drawing is monogrammed 'CH' lower right and numbered in pencil on verso. It is overall in good condition. The sheet is mounted under a mat with four photo corners. Verso, there are traces of a previous mounting. On the front the upper and lower center show some irregularities in the paper (outside the depiction). The lower left corner is kinked. The frame shows some wear. The framed work measures 76.5 x 62 cm, the sheet size is 52.7 x 42.3 cm. Carl Hofer (1878-1955) Carl 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 Cézanne, the French Impressionists and 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 advocate of the realist tradition. His oeuvre occupies a special position within classical modernism, his work 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. Shipping costs excl. statutory VAT and plus 2,5% (+VAT) shipping insurance. Due to the legal obligation for the resale royalty in the art market the following applies: As a result of its membership in the AV Kunst, Auctionata charges additionally to the hammer price the contribution to the AV Kunst of currently 2.1% of the revenues from the sale of fine arts and photographs pro rata towards the buyer. More information about royalty right in our T&C.