Finding original works by Paul Hoecker presents a considerable challenge due to several factors. A significant number of his pieces have been lost over time, leaving many gaps in his artistic legacy. Moreover, numerous works are held in private collections, undocumented and hidden from public view. This private ownership can further complicate efforts to locate and examine Hoecker’s art, as the owners may not be aware of the artist’s historical significance and the lack of documentation regarding his works.
Our understanding of Hoecker’s oeuvre is primarily based on reproductions, which often suffer from poor quality and can obscure details and nuances of his art. In some cases, works are known only through textual descriptions, making it challenging to visualize and assess these pieces accurately. Furthermore, the absence of a comprehensive catalog raisonné exacerbates these difficulties. Without such a reference, it is nearly impossible to compile a full account of Hoecker’s artistic output and locate his surviving pieces.
These factors collectively hinder the discovery and appreciation of Hoecker’s work, underscoring the need for further research and documentation to preserve and promote his artistic heritage. The Paul Hoecker Research Group is committed not only to cataloging the physically extant works but also those mentioned in texts, letters, or other historical documents. This comprehensive approach aims to provide a fuller picture of Hoecker’s artistic output, even if some works have been lost or destroyed.
Every effort has been made to contact all holders of the copyright to the photos contained in this list. Any copyright-holders who believe that photos have been reproduced without their knowledge are asked to contact us.
If you have additional information or interest in Hoecker’s work, please contact us.
A Courting Couple, 1879
oil on wood
47 x 37.5 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Selbstbildnis mit Frau, 1879
oil on canvas
33.2 x 25 cm
Lenbachhaus Munich
Photo: Lenbachhaus, Munich
Holländisches Mädchen / mit Spinnrad am Fenster sitzend, 1881
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker FQAM
Briefschreiberin (Holländisches Mädchen / in der Stube am Fenster sitzend und Briefe schreibend), 1982
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker FQAM
Briefschreiberin (Holländisches Mädchen / Briefleserin am Küchenfenster), 1882
unknown size
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
Photo: Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
Plauderstunde, 1887
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker FQAM
Herzensangelegenheit, around 1895
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker FQAM
Um die Ecke (Au coin de l’âtre), 1905
oil on wood
32 x 42 cm
private collection Amsterdam
Photo: Lazimg
Großmutter und Enkelin am Kamin / Bei der Großmutter, around 1900
unknown size and owner
Photo: Hanfstaengl, family estate Paul Hoecker FQAM
Mädchen und Großmutter / Begütigung, 1880
oil on canvas
58 x 86 cm
private collection
Photos: unknown
Am Kamin / Am Herd, 1886/1888
oil on canvas
112 x 71 cm
unknown owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Ein Wunsch, around 1893
oil on canvas
70 x 91 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Mädchen und Großmutter, around 1890
79 x 104 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Am Kamin, 1889
unknown size and owner
Photo: Hans Kraan Ingrid S Brons: Dromen van Holland Waanders, Uitgeverij, 2002, p. 263
Der Schüchterne Freier (Holländisches Interieur), n.d.
size and owner unknown
Photo: Fritz von Ostini:Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 166
Mann vor dem Ofen, n.d.,
oil on canvas,
100,5 x 138cm
unknown owner
Photo: Stockholms Aktionsverk Köln
Am Kamin, 1883
unknown size and owner
Foto: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Mädchen am Kamin sitzend, n.d.
110 x 104 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unkown
Mädchen am Kessel (Holländisches Interieur), n.d.
size and owner unknown
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings, Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 166
Mädchen mit Äpfeln, around 1880
oil on canvas
65.3 x 49 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Illustration after Cats Eyes / Mädchen mit Katze, 1887
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Feeding the Rabbits, n.d.
oil on canvas
120.6 x 90 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Illustration after Der rote Rock, 1891
unknown size and collection
Photo: official exhibition catalog Glaspalast 1891, Munich
Holländisches Mädchen, circa 1890
oil study
unknown size and owner
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings, Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 165
Approaching footsteps (old title: Girl with needle work looking over her shoulder), 1883
oil on wood
24.5 x 18.5 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Holländisches Mädchen / Vally / Meine Nichte, 1882/83
oil on canvas
126 x 73 cm
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek
Photo: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Holländisches Mädchen, 1884
oil on wood
55 x 38 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Stickendes holländisches Mädchen, n.d.
oil on wood
63.2 x 45.9 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Stiller Ocean, 1889
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Knabe mit Holzschuh, around 1890
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Mönch auf einer Bibel ruhend, n.d.
oil on board
33 x 24.8 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Huckebein Im Kloster / Konviktstube, n.d.,
unknown size and owner,
Photo: Über Land und Meer, Vol. Jg. 53, No. 15, 1885, p. 333
Der Bürokrat im Bierstübel, 1888,
oil on wood
32 x 23.5 cm
unknown owner
Photo: Rudolf Bangel [ed.], Sammlung F. J. Pieper, Köln a. Rh.: deutsche Meisterwerke höchsten Ranges aus der Blütezeit der Genremalerei, Frankfurt a. M. 1927, p. 26-27.
Interieur im Stil des Adrian Brouwer, n.d.
oil on wood
30 x 37 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Schusterwerkstätte, 1887/1889
unknown size and owner
Photo: Holland Hyacinth: Höcker Paul, in: Bettelheim, Anton (ed.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und deutscher Nekrolog, Berlin 1913, p. 147-148
Drei holländische Bauernmädchen, around 1900
gouache
18.5 x 22 cm
Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds, Munich, WAF Inv.-Nr. B II 62.
Photo: Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds
Scheunenfeuer, n.d.
oil on canvas
37.5 x 47.5 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Leiterwagen / Heuschober mit Leiterwagen mit Katze vor der Tür, 1889
oil on canvas
54 x 74 cm
unknown owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Die Schafherde, n.d.
oil on wood
43 x 61 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Das Segelboot, 1889
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Batterie an Bord, around 1883
oil on canvas
24 x 53 cm
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek
Photo: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Gefechtschießen auf einem deutschen Panzerschiff, 1886
unknown size and owner
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 163
Illustration after Siesta an Bord, before 1886
unknown size and collection
Photo: Berliner Bunte Mappe
Munich 1886
Untitled, ca. 1880er
oil on wood,
86 x 127,5
Augustinermuseum Freiburg
Photo: Augustinermuseum, Freiburg
Zwei Mädchen, 1884
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Vier Geschwister (Kinder), 1885
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Mädchen über ein Bilderbuch gebeugt, 1885
oil on board
33 x 23.5 cm
private owner
Photo: unknown
Vally, 1888
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Untitled (Vally in front of birches), n.d.
size unknown
private collection
Photo: private
Vally, 1885
oil on canvas
108 x 70 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Knabenbildnis / Solberg-Wernigerode, 1885
unknown size and owner
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 168
Junge einen Fächer haltend, n.d.
oil on wood
98 x 65.5 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Illustration after Die kleine Comtesse, n.d.
unknown size and collector
Photo: Allgemeiner Illustrirte Zeitung 58. Band, Issue 14, p. 67
Bildnis einer jungen Frau/Frühling, n.d.
oil on canvas
54 x 31 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Anna mit Tee, around 1890
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Portrait einer Dame, 1892
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Illustration after Anna, around 1890
size and owner unknown
Photo: Jugend, 1910, Issue 9, Cover
Wartende Frau / Awaiting his return, n.d.
oil on wood
52.1 x 26 cm
unknown owner
Photo: Artnet
Meine Mutter – Clementine / Dame in Schwarz, around 1890
82 x 63 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Bildnis der Mutter, n.d.
unknown size and owner
Photo: Die Münchner Secession 1892-1952, Munich 1951, Lenbachhaus Munich, p. 7
Clemenze Walter (born Hoecker), n.d.
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Frau im Kerzenschein, n.d.
oil on wood
16 x 11 cm
private collection
Photo: unknown
Dekorative Malerei im Speisesaal eines Münchner Hauses, before 1895
mural
size and location unknown
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 169
Pierrot mit Pfeifen, around 1900
50 x 77 cm
private collection
Photo: private
See also: Bares für Rares, ZDF
Intermezzo / Pierrot Balance, 1897
tempera on canvas
unknown owner
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings, Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 169
Pierrot, n.d.
oil on canvas
49.5 x 39.4 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Pierrot, n.d.
unknown size and owner
Photo: Hungarian National Gallery
Pierrot, around 1890
oil on canvas
75 x 43 cm
unknown owner
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 160
Pierrot, around 1890
pastel
unknown size
private collection
Photo: private
Zwei Pierrots, around 1898
oil on board
35 x 46,5 cm
private collection
Photo: privat
Pierrots, n.d.
sketch
unknown size and owner
Photo: Paul Keller: Paul Kellers Monatsblätter, Die Bergstatt, Verlag der Bergstadt, Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 1915/16
Pierrot, n.d.
oil on canvas
58 x 45 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Resignation und Zuversicht / Morgenstimmung / Abendstimmung, 1885
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker
FQAM
Illustration after Maria Verkündigung, 1890
unknown size and owner
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 170
Illustration after Die Wundmale / Die Nonne mit den Wundmalen, around 1893
oil on canvas
unknown size and owner
Photo: Jugend 1918, Issue 4, p. 63
Illustration after Nonne im Laubengang / Gebet für die gefallenen Helden, 1890
oil on canvas
unknown size and owner
Photo: Jugend, 1915, Issue 25, p. 471
Die Nonne, 1895
unknown size and owner
Photo: exhibition catalogue “I Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Città di Venezia” 1985
Nonne, before 1901
oil on canvas
unknown size and owner
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 169
Laubengang in Dachau, n.d.
size and owner unknown
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Novizen im Laubengang, n.d.
oil on canvas
160 x 110 cm
unknown owner
Photo: Neumeister, Munich
Untitled, n.d.
size and owner unknown
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Untitled, n.d.
size and owner unknown
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Untitled (Mönch betend), n.d.
75 × 69 cm
privat collection
Photo: privat
Ave Maria, around 1898
oil on canvas
219 x 236 cm
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek
Photo: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Vesuvius, 1897
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Illustration after Untitled (big living room, Paul Hoecker House), n.d.
unknown size and owner
Image: Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, n.d.
Empirezimmer, around 1900
unknown size and owner
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 170
Erwartung, around 1900
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Letzte Sonnenstrahlen (Hoeckerhaus), around 1890
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Frühlingsabend, around 1906
oil painting
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Grünes Zimmer, n.d.
oil on wood
39 x 43.5 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Hoeckerhaus, around 1900
oil on canvas
76 x 92 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Untitled (View of his parent’s house in Oberlangenau), around 1905
unknown size
private collection
Photo: private
Abendstimmung, 1898
oil on canvas
104 x 137 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Ausklingender Tag / Abend, 1897
oil study
unknown size and owner
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 167
Letzte Sonnenstrahlen, 1897
oil on canvas
unknown size and owner
Photo: Fritz von Ostini: Paul Hoecker und seine Schule. Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, Issue 6, February 1913, p. 173
Der Abend (la sera), before 1897
oil on canvas
130 x 114 cm
Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro
Photo: Francesco Girotto © Photo Archive – Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.
Liegender Akt mit Blumenstrauß, circa 1900
oil on canvas
72 x 99,5 cm
private collection
Photo: Bernd Dürr, Leo Putz, Max Feldbauer und der Kreis der Scholle und Jugend in Dachau circa 1900. Dachau 1989, p. 36
Sage und Volkslied, before 1907
oil on canvas
67 x 134 cm
Lenbachhaus, Munich
Photo: private
Sage und Volkslied, n.d.,
oil on board
19 x 38 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Untitled, around 1900
oil on wood
53 x 67 cm
private collection
Photo: unknown
Knabenportrait, n.d.
oil on wood
36.5 x 19 cm
unknown owner
Photo: unknown
Illustration after a Portrait of Elise Hirth, before 1906
unknown size and owner
Photo: Jugend, 1906, Issue 48, Cover
Knabenportrait, n.d.
mixed media on wood
43 x 43 cm
private collection, London
Photo: Galerie Isolde Weiß
Illustration after Bacchant / Römischer Jüngling, before 1904
unknown size and owner
Photo: Jugend, 1904, Issue 26, Cover
Jünglingskopf / Knabenbildnis, around 1901
oil on board
50 x 41.5 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Jünglingskopf / Knabenbildnis, around 1901
oil on board
33.5 x 22 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Jünglingsakt mit Fisch, around 1900
oil on canvas
85 x 136 cm
Schwules Museum, Sammlung Sternweiler, Berlin
Photo: Schwules Museum, Berlin
Jüngling / Narziss, n.d.
oil on canvas
156 x 98 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Nino, around 1908
oil on canvas
156 x 98 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Nino, around 1908
oil on canvas
37 x 47 cm
private collection
Photo: private
Untitled, n.d.
drawing
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Untitled, n.d.
drawing
unknown size and owner
Photo: family estate Paul Hoecker, FQAM
Untitled, n.d.
drawing
unknown size and owner
Photo: Handschriftensammlung, Nachlass Franz Stuhlmann, Signatur: NFLS: H 109, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
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