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Wolf Kahn"Study of a Child" Wolf Kahn, Expressionist Sketch, Bright Colors, Gesturalcirca 1958
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Wolf Kahn
Study of a Child
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
10 x 13 inches
An important member of the second generation New York School, Wolf Kahn is renowned for his luminous, richly colored landscapes. Focusing on such thematic imagery as the tended fields, houses and sturdy barns of New England, Kahn's work represents a masterful synthesis of illusionistic representation and abstraction.
Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927. As a boy, he studied painting and drawing in Frankfurt. In 1939 his family separated by the Nazi upheaval, Kahn was sent to Cambridge, England, with other refugee children. One year later he arrived in New York City, where he was united with his father, a noted musician. Kahn continued his education at the New York High School of Music and Art, graduating in 1945. During 1946 after a brief period of service in the Navy, he worked under Stuart Davis at the New School for Social Research. From 1947 until 1949, Kahn attended Hans Hofmann's School of Fine Art in New York. He also spent a summer as Hofmann's studio assistant in Provincetown.
In 1950 Kahn enrolled at the University of Chicago, receiving his bachelor's degree a year later. After a period of traveling across the continent and working in Oregon as a lumberjack, he returned to New York and resumed painting. In 1956, along with several other of Hofmann's former students, he helped found the Hansa Gallery, one of the first artists' co-operative loft galleries. During these years, Kahn was one of several young artists, including Elaine de Kooning and Robert De Niro, who were influenced by action painting but, at the same time, felt the need to reintroduce nature back into their art.
Kahn's early work consists of still lifes and figure studies, which show the influence of Hofmann's "push-pull" space as well as his gestural energy. However, Kahn's mature style revolves around the portrayal of un-peopled landscapes in which he combined an expressive chromaticism (inspired by Milton Avery and Mark Rothko) with an emphasis on the dynamics of light and atmosphere. Many describe him as a Luminist, carrying on the 19th century tradition but with a thoroughly modern sensibility. Kahn drew much of his subject matter from the landscape in and around his farm in Vermont, where he spent his summers.
Kahn had numerous solo exhibitions, organized by such institutions as the San Diego Museum of Art (1984, 1987), the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (1882), the Arts Club of Chicago (1981) and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (1979). He was also the recipient of many awards and prized, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1966-67).
- Creator:Wolf Kahn (1927, German)
- Creation Year:circa 1958
- Dimensions:Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1841217437272
Wolf Kahn
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927, Wolf Kahn fled Nazi Germany to Britain through the Kindertransport in the late 1930s. He eventually settled in the United States, where he completed high school and enrolled in the Navy. Following his service, he studied with the legendary teacher and Abstract Expressionist painter Hans Hofmann, eventually becoming his studio assistant.
In 1950, Kahn enrolled at the University of Chicago and completed his bachelor of arts degree within one year. He had his first solo exhibition at Hansa Gallery in New York City in 1953 and went on to be represented by Grace Borgenicht Gallery, where he exhibited regularly until 1995.
Kahn was the recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Medal of Arts from the State Department. He married the artist Emily Mason in 1957. Their marriage lasted sixty-two years until Emily’s death in December 2019, just a few months before Kahn's passing. The pair lived and worked between New York City and W. Brattleboro, Vermont.
Kahn’s work has been exhibited at galleries and museums throughout North America. His work is held in important museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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