Lot number 236 - Adolf Höfer (1869-1927)

Painting - Adolf Höfer (1869 Munich - 1927 Parsberg in the Upper Palatinate)

'Standing Nude in Front of Interior, White Chair with Traditional Hat on the Left', monogrammed A.H. upper right, oil on canvas, bibliography on the reverse, image dimensions approx. 55 x 40 cm, provenance: private collection, Regensburg, see biography: 1890 Munich Academy of Fine Arts in the life drawing class under Johann Caspar Herterich; later under Prof. Paul Hoecker: Adolf Höfer was a member of 'Group G', from 1899 of the artists' association 'Scholle' (alongside Leo Putz, Fritz Erler, Max Feldbauer, and many others) and a member of the Munich Secession; exhibitions at the Munich Glass Palace, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna, and Prague; between 1906 and 1911 studio in the Schwabing district of Munich; From 1906 to 1920, interrupted by the First World War, Adolf Höfer taught at the Munich Women's Academy; One of his students was the young noblewoman Nadine von Enckevort, with whom he shared a deep friendship. In 1910, according to the painter's descendants, Adolf Höfer was received for tea by the art-loving Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria (1821-1912). The painter then spent an extended period of time with his brother, a physician living in Parsberg in the Upper Palatinate. On March 14, 1927, Adolf Höfer committed suicide at the age of 57. He shot himself with his officer's pistol in the garden of his house at Darshofener Straße 94.
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