Wolf Kahn

Born Hans Wolfgang Kahn, 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany; died 2020.

Wolf Kahn is a German-American painter known for his vivid and colorful landscapes. “I am always trying to get to the danger point, where color either becomes too sweet or too harsh; too noisy or too quiet,” he said of his approach to painting. Born on October 4, 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany, Kahn emigrated to the United States in 1940. After serving in the U.S. Navy, Kahn became a student and later a studio assistant of the famed abstract painter Hans Hoffmann. With Hoffman’s Color Field theories entrenched in his mind, Kahn developed a practice which married abstraction with observation. Receiving his BA from the University of Chicago in 1951, the artist moved back to New York where he cofounded Hansa Gallery and began exhibiting his work. In 2003, the artist published Wolf Kahn’s America: An Artist’s Travels, which documents his experience capturing scenes in pastel and oil paint across the United States. Until his death, artist lived and worked between New York, NY, and Brattleboro, VT, with his wife the painter Emily Mason. Kahn’s works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

Bio taken from Artnet.com