Property from a Distinguished German Collection
Muzzano (Tessin)
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Prop🌸erty from a Distinguished🧔 German Collection
Karl Hofer
1878 - 1955
Muzzano (Tessin)
signed with the monogram (lower right)
oil on canvas
59.6 by 76.1 cm. 23 ⅜ by 30 in.
Framed: 67.5 by 83.7 cm. 26 ½ by 32 ⅞ in.
Executed in 1925.
Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin and Düsseldorf
Heinrich Neuerburg, Cologne (acquired by 1926)
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, C🤪o﷽logne (inv. no. 1988) (a gift from the above in 1926 and at least until 1931. Confiscated on 3 November 1937 as 'degenerate' art (EC no. 15690))
Christie's, Amsterdam, 11 December 1991, lot 262
Private Collection, Berlin
Thence by descent to the present owner
Karl Bernhard Wohlert and Markus Eisenbeis, Karl Hofer, Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, vol. II, Cologne, 2007, no. 658, p. 137ဣ, i𒅌llustrated
Berlin, Galerie Flechtheim, Karl Hofer, 1925-26
(Possibly) Essen, Museum Folkwang, Die Malerei nach dem Kriege : Ausstellung der Maler Beckmann, Chirico, Davringhausen, Derain, Dix, Gross, Hofer, Kanoldt, Kretzschmar, Mense, Scholz und Schrimpf, 1926, no. 35, n.p., listed (titled Landschaft)
Mannheim, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Karl Hofer : das gesammelte Werk, 1928, no. 130 p. 15, listed (titled Muzzano im Tessin)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, German Painting and Sculpture, 1931, no. 31, p. 24, illustrated (titled Muzzano)
Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, 240 Werke von 74 deutschen Künstlern des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, 1973, no. 92 (illustrated)
Berlin, Galerie Bremer, Karl Hofer: Ölbilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, 1976, n.n., n.p. (titled Berlandschaft mit Dorf u. Kirche)