Lot 222: Lying Nude

Wilhelm Hoffmeister, Berlin 1908 - Hamburg 1991 Lying Nude, Oil/canvas, 90 x 151,5 cm, lo. ri. monogr. a. dat. W. H. 23.XI.1955, on the reverse inscribed Wilhelm Hoffmeister as well as estate stamp.- German painter whose artistic activities range from realism a. surrealism to constructivism a. abstraction. H. studied in Berlin under R. Großmann, thereafter he was scholar in Florence a. Venice. He had numerous exhibitions all over Germany. - Lit.: Der Neue Rump, W. H. 'Bilder der Sprache'.