Cleveland Museum of Art
The Letter
Karl Hofer
- Date
- 1934
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- Germany, 20th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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.
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