Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
Museum
The Letter
1934
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Provenance
PublicProvenance event
(Karl Nierendorf, Berlin and New York).
Source provenance text
(Karl Nierendorf, Berlin and New York).
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943). Degenerate! Hitler’s War on Modern Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2024-April 20, 2025). Exhibition of Work by Hofer, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (December 6-21, 1939), cat. no. 21. Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Karl Hofer, Carnegie Art Institute Pittsburgh, PA, (January 4-28, 1940) cat. no. 16. Expressionistic Painting, The Dudley P. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 1-30, 1946).
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Sourced Overview Evidence
Hofer's art is filled with disillusionment and pessimism, expressing his dark vision of modern life through a limited range of themes that the artist repeated obsessively. Born in Karlsruhe, Hofer settled in Berlin in 1913. Condemned by the Nazis as a "degenerate artist," in 1933 he was dismissed from his teaching post. In 1943 Hofer's studio and most of his work were destroyed by bombing.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 1 structured provenance events · 3 structured exhibitions.
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