Carl Hofer

1878

Was born October 11, 1878 in Karlsruhe

1892

Apprenticeship as a merchant

1896

Scholarship for the Karlsruhe Academy of Arts

1903

Marriage with Mathilde Scheinberger and relocation to Rome

1923

Member of the Prussian Academy of Arts

1929

Admission to the senate of the Prussian Academy of Arts

1933

Was deprived of his teaching position

1937

Was defamed as “degenerate”

1943

Destruction of his studio by bombs as a result of which 150 paintings were destroyed. Placement in a sanatorium

1946-1946

Principal of the “Hochschule für bildende Künste” in Berlin as well as co-publisher of the magazine “Bildende Kunst”

1948

Honorary doctorate at the Berlin Humboldt University

1950

President of the Association of German Artists (“Deutscher Künstlerbund”)

1953

Art Award of the City of Berlin

1955

Died April 3, 1955 in Berlin

A selection

1905

Karl Hofer, Kunstverein, Karlsruhe

1920

Karl Hofer, Municipal Art Gallery, Mannheim

1928

Karl Hofer – The Collected Works, Municipal Art Gallery, Mannheim

1934

Karl Hofer, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld Karl Hofer, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren

1939

Karl Hofer on his 60th birthday, Kunstverein Winterthur 1939, exhibition at the museum Paintings and Drawings by Karl Hofer, Loaned by the Nierendorf Gallery, New York

1953

Carl Hofer, Goslarer Museum Karl Hofer, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven

1954

Carl Hofer, Märkisches Museum Witten/Ruhr 1954 Karl Hofer at Günther Franke's. Munich Overview of Karl Hofer's complete works since 1945, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum Hagen

1965

Karl Hofer 1878–1955, Academy of Arts Berlin; Kunstmuseum Winterthur

1992

Karl Hofer. Tischgesellschaften, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig

2015

Special exhibition Karl Hofer, Hans-Thoma-Kunstmuseum, Bernau im Schwarzwald

2019-2020

Karl Hofer (1878-1955) - Lebenslinien, First part of an extensive exhibition at the Museum Ettlingen, Ettlingen Castle

2024

Karl Hofer - Figures, Still Lifes, Landscapes, Museu Castello San Materno, Ascona (Switzerland)

2025

Crossroads. The painter Karl Hofer between beauty and truth, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle