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Willem Hofker artwork • painting • previously for sale Houses along the Gelderse Kade, Amsterdam

Hofker W.G.  | Willem Gerard Hofker, Houses along the Gelderse Kade, Amsterdam, oil on panel 24.2 x 27.8 cm, signed l.r. and on the reverse and dated 1931 l.r. and on the reverse

Willem Hofker

Houses along the Gelderse Kade, Amsterdam
oil on panel 24.2 x 27.8 cm, signed l.r. and on the reverse and dated 1931 l.r. and on the reverse

This painting was previously for sale.

Literature: Bruce Carpenter, 'Willem Hofker; schilder van Bali', Wijk en Aalburg 1993, pag. 157 (met afb. in kleur); Carole Denninger-Schreuder, 'Schilders van Amsterdam: Vier eeuwen stadsgezichten', Bussum 2000, pag. 146, afb. 132 (in kleur), pag. 147. Carole Denninger, 'Amsterdam – 365 stadsgezichten’, Bussum 2008, nr. 311 (met afb. in kleur).

Willem Hofker, son of a high-ranking PTT official who was friends with the Eighties Isaac Israels, G.H. Breitner and Willem Witsen received a thorough painting training, first at the Academy in The Hague, then at the Rijksacademie Amsterdam. He then developed into a clever draftsman and impressionist and built up a reputation as a portrait painter. He had the gift of vividly suggesting personality and character. A commission to paint the portrait of Queen Wilhelmina for the KPM led to a stay in Indonesia, together with his wife Maria Rueter. From 1938 to 1946 both lived in Bali, where they sketched and painted. After their return, Hofker devoted himself mainly to portraits and cityscapes, which he often produced on commission.


Willem Hofker | A view of the Sint-Maartenskerk, Zaltbommel, black and coloured chalk on paper, 43.2 x 33.0 cm, signed u.l. and l.r. and dated 1960

Willem Hofker

watercolour • drawing • for sale

A view of the Sint-Maartenskerk, Zaltbommel


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