Die Irre. Um 1947.
Pencil drawing.
Monogrammed in center below image as well as numbered "25)" in lower margin. On smooth creme paper. 44,5 x 36 cm (17,5 x 14,1 in), size of sheet.
In Karl Hofer worked up the motif of this drawing in the painting "Die Wahnsinnige" (Wohlert 2010), which today is in possession of the Schlossmuseum Ettlingen. [KP].

The work is registered in the forthcoming catalog raisonné of watercolors and drawings, which is prepared by Karl Bernhard Wohlert, under the number 1694.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Klihm, Munich.
Private collection Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Karl Hofer. Oil paintings, Drawings. Traveling exhibition Galerie Valentin, Stuttgart / Galerie Klihm, Munich / Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin / Stadttheater Remscheid, 1972/1973, no. 3 (with illu.).
Karl Hofer. Drawings and oil paintings. Exhibition of teh city of Goslar in cooperation with the Galerie Klihm, Munich. Goslar, 5 April - 9 June, 1974.
Jacob Bräckle and Carl Hofer. Kunstverein Ulm, 31 August - 28 September, 1975, no. 14.