Tessiner Landschaft bei Breganzona. 1936.
Oil on canvas.
Wohlert 1253. Lower right monogrammed and dated (in ligature). 64 x 89.5 cm (25.1 x 35.2 in).
[AR].
• Family-owned for more than 50 years.
• Hofer's Ticino landscapes play an important role in his creation. They are an expression of his quest for calm and balance.
• Our work with its characteristic bright facades under a clear blue sky was also made in the Mediterranean mountain landscapes around Lake Lugano.
• Other Ticino landscapes are in possession of, among others, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Staatliche Kunstsammlung in Karlsruhe, the Kunsthalle Mannheim and the Kunst Museum Winterthur.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Munich (until 1961, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett).
Maximilianshütte (cquired from the above).
Private collection Southern Germany (inherited in 1972).

LITERATURE: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Roman Norbert Ketterer, 36th auction, part 1, May 3, 1961, lot 158 (with color illu., plate no. 35).

"During a stay in Zürich after war captivity, I went to the Ticino together with Hermann Haller and I got to see this paradise for the first time. It is a world that is clearly Italian and yet entirely different."
(Karl Hofer, Aus Leben und Kunst, Berlin 1952, p. 14)