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The Letter
Karl Hofer (German, 1878–1955)
1934
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 90.7 x 70 cm (35 11/16 x 27 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Germany, 20th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
