Koenige, Mr. (Husband of Erika Hoffman)
2/1980
20th Century
3 3/8 x 4 1/4 in. (8.6 x 10.8 cm)
Andy Warhol,
American,
(1928–1987)
Object Type:
PHOTOGRAPHY
Creation Place:
North America
Medium and Support:
Polacolor Type 108
Credit Line:
Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Accession Number:
08-Ph-88
Label from "Andy Warhol: Portraiture and the Business of Art", La Salle University Art Museum, April 10 – June 28, 2012:
Mr. Koenige, a.k.a. Rolf Hoffmann (1934–2001), was the director of van Laack, an international fashion company. He and his wife, Erika Hoffmann-Koenige, collected contemporary art since the early 1960s and established an important private collection in Berlin, the Sammlung Hoffmann, which is open to the public on Saturdays. In an interview with InitiArt Magazine, Erika Hoffmann-Koenige described Warhol’s modeling appearance at a van Laack Fashion Show in New York in 1982: “On the catwalk, he was, smaller and much shyer than his radiant female colleagues, seriously focused to pose and perform. Amidst the TV glamour, the flashes, and the music that was a touching moment.””
Current Location:
In Storage
