id: 112650 accession number: 1931.269 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.269 updated: 2022-01-04 15:10:54.851000 At the Window II, c. 1923. Karl Hofer (German, 1878-1955). Lithograph; image: 20.2 x 14.3 cm (7 15/16 x 5 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1931.269 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: At the Window II title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1923 creation date earliest: 1918 creation date latest: 1928 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Germany, 20th century technique: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Rathenau 25 --- CREATORS * Karl Hofer (German, 1878-1955) - artist --- measurements: Image: 20.2 x 14.3 cm (7 15/16 x 5 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed, in pencil, at lower right: Hofer; inscribed, in pencil, at lower right: 164/43 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Contemporary European Prints from the Museum Collection opening date: 1939-07-17T04:00:00 Contemporary European Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 17-September 6, 1939). title: Cross Section: Graphic Art in Germany after the First World War opening date: 1989-10-10T04:00:00 Cross Section: Graphic Art in Germany after the First World War. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10, 1989-January 7, 1990). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * International Competitive Print Exhibition. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 18 - April 21, 1931). --- PROVENANCE Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1931 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1931- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Just over a decade after this print was made, Karl Hofer was labeled a "Degenerate Artist" by the National Socialists and his works were removed from German museums. digital description: Windows appear frequently throughout the work of Karl Hofer, who created nearly 300 prints. Dating from a period that Hofer spent in his native Germany between the First and Second World Wars, this lithograph reflects the anxiety and chaos that characterized the country during that time. Figures with masklike faces crowd the space of an interior without interacting. It remains unclear whether they block the view to the outside world that the window would otherwise provide or are instead viewed from a building’s exterior. Enhanced by the jagged, sketchy lines used to render the figures, the composition conveys a sense of alienation and unease. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS L. E. P. "International Competitive Print Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 18, no. 4 (1931): 62-64. page number: Mentioned: p. 64 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137376 Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1948. Published as: At the Window. page number: Mentioned: p. 41 url: https://archive.org/details/Lithography/page/n48 --- IMAGES