About the Artwork
Before a Curtain I
ca. 1930
Karl Hofer
1878-1955
German
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 39 1/2 × 25 3/4 inches (100.3 × 65.4 cm) Framed: 46 7/8 × 33 1/8 × 3 inches (119.1 × 84.1 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Mrs. George Kamperman in memory of her husband
64.217
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Markings
Signed, artist's monogram, lower right: CH
Inscribed, in pencil, on stretcher bar: Vor einum Vorhaus I
Marked, label on back of stretcher, from Flechtheim Gallery. Marked, label, back of frame: Knauer, Berlin [Berlin dealer?]. Marked, two labels from Carnegie Exhibition, one listing Kamperman as owner (1933 exh) and one listing artist as owner (was it in the exhibition twice?). Marked, export stamp from Berlin, in red, on back of both canvas and frame.
Provenance
Mrs. George Kamperman
1964-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 44, no. 1 (1965): p. 7 (ill.).
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Karl Hofer, Before a Curtain I, ca. 1930, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. George Kamperman in memory of her husband, 64.217.
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