Karl Hofer (1878-1955)
Kinder unter Sonnenblumen
signed with monogram (upper right)
oil on canvas laid down on panel
39¼ x 29½ in. (99.7 x 75 cm.)
Painted in 1929
Karl Hofer (1878-1955)
Kinder unter Sonnenblumen
signed with monogram (upper right)
oil on canvas laid down on panel
39¼ x 29½ in. (99.7 x 75 cm.)
Painted in 1929
Finkelstein, London (by 1938).
Acquired by the family of the present owner, circa 1950.
C. Fischer-Defoy, Kunst, Macht, Politik, Die Nazifizierung der Kunst- und Musikhochschulen in Berlin, Berlin, 1988, p. 149 (illustrated, fig. 5.6).
K.B. Wohlert, Karl Hofer, Werkverzeichnis der gemälde, Cologne, 2007, vol. 2, p. 172, no. 858 (illustrated).
London, New Burlington Galleries, Exhibition of Twentieth Century German Art, July 1938, p. 18, no. 69 (titled Two Children with Sunflowers and dated 1932).
St. Louis City Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Institute; Buffalo, Smith College Museum of Art; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and San Francisco Museum of Art, Exibition of 20th Century (Banned) German Art, 1939-1940, no. 19 (titled Two Children with Sunflowers).
Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, German Expressionism, 1956.
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