Mädchenporträt. Um 1920.
Oil on copper plate.
Monogrammed in lower right. 40 x 34.5 cm (15.7 x 13.5 in).

During the occupation of the Netherlands from 1940 to 1945, the picture, alomngside other works from the collection, was hidden at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdamby by its director Sandberg. [AW].
Radically modern aesthetics: a clear, reduced composition in flat, bright colors.
• Expressive portrait with an engaging clear look from the best creative period.
• In his portraits, Hofer impressively succeeded in visualizing the individual fate of those depicted, while he also takes the pictorial content to a universal level.
• Family-owned for almost 100 years.

PROVENANCE: Das Kunsthaus Herbert Tannenbaum, Mannheim.
William (Dr. Wilhelm) Landmann Collection (1891-1987), Mannheim/Amsterdam/Toronto (acquired from the above in the early 1920s).
Martin Landmann Collection (1923-2021), Vancouver, Canada (obtained from the above in 1953).
Ever since family-owned.

EXHIBITION: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (July 1939-1946 as loan from the Landmann Collection).
European sculpture and painting from the collection of William Landmann, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 18 - November 17, 1946.
European Paintings, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1962 (fig. p. 4).
Für die Kunst! Herbert Tannenbaum und sein Kunsthaus. Ein Galerist – seine Künstler, seine Kunden, sein Konzept, Reiß-Museum der Stadt Mannheim, September 11, 1994 - January 8, 1995, cat. no. 179 (fig.).

LITERATURE: Karl Bernhard Wohlert, Karl Hofer. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, vol. 2, ed. by Markus Eisenbeis, Cologne 2007, no. 402 (fig.).
Documents on the storage / loan from the Landmann Collection, archiev of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, folder 707.
Documents on the storage / loan from the Landmann Collection, archiev of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, folder 698, p. 18, no. 601.
Exhibition list from 1946, archive of Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Collection inventory (file card) of Landmann Collection, privately owned.
Paul Duval, German, Mexican and American Art Shows Varied National Characteristics, in: Saturday Night, vol. 62, no. 8, October 26, 1946, Toronto, pp. 2f. (fig.).