Sale: 539 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 390

 

390
Karl Hofer
Lavena (Tessin), 1937.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,000
Sold:
€ 48,260 / $ 53,086

(incl. surcharge)
Lavena (Tessin). 1937.
Oil on canvas.
Wohlert 1342. Lower right monogrammed and dated. Titled "Lavena" on the stretcher. 65 x 100.5 cm (25.5 x 39.5 in). [JS].

• Atmospheric Ticino landscape – Hofer captured the view of Lavena and the gray-blue mountain massif on Lake Lugano on a bright summer day in a large format.
• Modern composition in strict parallels: From the bright blue of the sky, over the gray-blue mountains to the green meadow in the foreground - Hofer arranged the composition in parallel structures.
• As of 1925 Hofer regularly went to the Ticino, where even owned property on Lake Lugano for some time.
• For the first time offered on the international auction market (source: www.artprice.com)
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PROVENANCE: Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart no date (with the label on the stretcher).
Galerie Günther Franke, Munich (until 1942)
Collection of Dr. Hans P. Secker, Cologne (former director of the department of Modern Art at the Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne (1922-1928), since 1942-presumably until 1961, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, May 3/4, 1961, lot 159).
Private collection Northern Germany (acquired from the above, presumably in 1961, ever since family-owned).

EXHIBITION: Karl Hofer Memorial Exhibition Hochschule der bildenden Künste Berlin / Badischer Kunstverein in cooperation with the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, December 9, 1956 - January 6, 1957, presumably cat. no. 88 (Norditalienische Landschaft).

LITERATURE: A. Jannasch, Carl Hofer, in: Aussaat, 2.1947, p. 161 (with a black-and-white illu.).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett R. N. Ketterer, 36th auction, part 1, Stuttgart May 3/4, 1961, p. 41, cat. no. 159 (with a color illu. on plate 34, with the label on the stretcher).
Kunstpreisverzeichnis, 16.1960/61, p. 350.
Briefe an Günther Franke, Cologne 1970, p. 118 (Karl Hofer to Günther Franke, December 6, 1942).




390
Karl Hofer
Lavena (Tessin), 1937.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,000
Sold:
€ 48,260 / $ 53,086

(incl. surcharge)