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CARL HOFER Figurengruppe (Drei Figuren).
Oil on board, circa 1950. 510x342 mm; 20 1/4x13 1/2 inches. Initialed in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Private collection, New York; private collection, Chicago.
Hofer (1878-1955) was one of the most prominent painters of German Expressionism. Though he was not a member of one of the expressionist painting groups, such as Die Brücke, he nevertheless associated with fellow artists in these groups and they influenced one another. During the 1930s, he was persecuted by the Nazi regime as a degenerate artist and in 1938 was expelled from the Prussian Academy of Arts. His studio in Berlin was bombed in March 1943, and completely destroyed, with many of his works, in November 1943; around the same time, the apartment where he lived with his family was also destroyed. After World War II, Hofer was involved in the construction of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, and became its director in July 1945. He continued to work through the following decade and regained his artistic prestige in the post-war period before his death.
