Artist Monograph

Karl Hofer, German

German, 1878–1955

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Lithography	19	82.6%
Drawing	3	13%
Oil Painting	1	4.3%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	22	95.7%
Painting & Sculpture	1	4.3%

Production by Decade

1920s

1930s

1940s

Classification Types

Illustrated Book — 13
Print — 6
Drawing — 3
Painting — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	13	56.5%
Medium (30–100 cm)	9	39.1%
Large (1–3 m)	1	4.3%

Range: 17.0 cm → 107.3 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1940	4
1947	2
1949	1
1956	14
1969	1
1978	1

German Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 23 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Girl, Washing (Mädchen, waschend) Print Acc. 326.1940	(c. 1922)	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 8 1/8 x 4 7/8" (20.7 x 12.4 cm); page: 12 11/16 x 9 5/16" (32.3 x 23.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.1-12	1922	Illustrated book with twelve lithographs	page: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm); overall: 12 5/8 x 9 3/4 x 3/16" (32 x 24.7 x 0.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Milliner No. I (Putzmacherin I) Print Acc. 327.1940	(1922)	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 15 1/16 x 10 7/16" (38.2 x 26.5 cm); sheet: 19 3/16 x 14 5/8" (48.7 x 37.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Milliner No. IV (Putzmacherin IV) Print Acc. 328.1940	(1922)	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 13 1/16 x 7 11/16" (33.2 x 19.5 cm); sheet: 18 x 14 1/8" (45.7 x 35.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Plate 1 (folio 4 verso) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.1	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	composition (irreg.): 7 3/8 x 5 13/16" (18.7 x 14.7 cm); page: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate 10 (folio 19) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.10	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	irreg. composition 9 1/16 x 5 5/8" (23 x 14.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate 11 (folio 20 verso) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.11	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	composition (irreg.): 8 1/16 x 6 1/4" (20.5 x 15.9 cm); page: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate 12 (folio 22) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.12	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	irreg. composition 7 5/16 x 6 7/16" (18.6 x 16.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate 2 (folio 6) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.2	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	composition (irreg.): 8 9/16 x 5 1/2" (21.8 x 13.9 cm); page: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate 3 (folio 7 verso) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.3	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	composition (irreg.): 6 11/16 x 6 1/4" (17 x 15.8 cm); page: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate 4 (folio 10) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.4	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	composition (irreg.): 8 1/4 x 6 7/8" (21 x 17.5 cm); page: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate 5 (folio 11 verso) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.5	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	composition (irreg.): 9 3/16 x 6 5/16" (23.4 x 16 cm); page: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate 6 (folio 13) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.6	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	composition (irreg.): 7 3/8 x 6 3/8" (18.7 x 16.2 cm); page: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate 7 (folio 14 verso) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.7	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	composition (irreg.): 8 3/8 x 5 11/16" (21.3 x 14.5 cm); page: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate 8 (folio 16) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.8	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	composition (irreg.): 7 1/4 x 6 7/8" (18.4 x 17.5 cm); page: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate 9 (folio 17) from Liebesgedichte (Love Poems) Illustrated Book Acc. 89.1956.9	1922	One from an illustrated book with twelve lithographs	composition (irreg.): 8 5/8 x 5 11/16" (21.9 x 14.4 cm); page: 12 5/16 x 8 3/8" (31.2 x 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Curt Valentin Bequest
Plate I from the portfolio Dance (Tanz) Print Acc. 631.1956	(1922)	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 13 x 10 7/16" (33 x 26.5 cm); sheet: 16 3/4 x 11 11/16" (42.6 x 29.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss
Carnival (Carneval) Print Acc. 329.1940	(before 1924)	Lithograph	composition: 13 1/4 x 8 13/16" (33.7 x 22.4 cm); sheet: 17 3/4 x 14 3/16" (45.1 x 36.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Man with a Melon Painting Acc. 284.1949	Berlin 1926	Oil on canvas	42 1/4 x 28 7/8" (107.3 x 73.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Purchase
Two Women by the Shore Drawing Acc. 103.1978	(c. 1928-29)	Pencil on paper	16 x 24 7/8" (40.7 x 63.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
Woman with Draped Shoulders Drawing Acc. 110.1947	(c. 1936)	Charcoal and pencil on paper	24 3/4 x 19 3/4" (62.8 x 50.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Curt Valentin
Girl with Flower (Mädchen mit Christblume) Print Acc. 333.1947	1946/1947	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 14 5/8 x 8 1/4" (37.1 x 21 cm); sheet: 16 1/2 x 11 5/8" (41.9 x 29.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Reclining Nude Drawing Acc. 825.1969	(c. 1948)	Pencil on paper	15 3/4 x 11 3/4" (40 x 29.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gertrud A. Mellon Fund