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Wolf Kahn Paintings

German, 1927-2020

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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(Biography provided by Miles McEnery Gallery)

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Artist: Wolf Kahn
Arborium by Wolf Kahn
Arborium by Wolf Kahn

Arborium by Wolf Kahn

By Wolf Kahn

Located in New Orleans, LA

Wolf Kahn 1927-2020 American Arborium Signed "W Kahn" (lower right) Oil on canvas A masterwork of modern American landscape painting, Arborium exemplifies Wolf Kahn's revolutiona...

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Landscape in Orange and Turquoise Pastel, Signed, 13x16 Inches
Landscape in Orange and Turquoise Pastel, Signed, 13x16 Inches

Landscape in Orange and Turquoise Pastel, Signed, 13x16 Inches

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Located in New York, NY

Provenance The Artist Private Collection, NY (acquired from the above) Private Collection, CT (by descent) Signed in bottom center: W Kahn Wolf Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany i...

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Glade, 2009
Glade, 2009

Wolf KahnGlade, 2009, 2009

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“Middleton Place II, 1974” Oil on Canvas West Brattleboro, Vermont Barn Series
“Middleton Place II, 1974” Oil on Canvas West Brattleboro, Vermont Barn Series

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Wolf Kahn - Ocean Cove, unique signed pastel on paper landscape painting  FRAMED
Wolf Kahn - Ocean Cove, unique signed pastel on paper landscape painting  FRAMED

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Wolf Kahn Ocean Cove, 1996 Pastel on paper painting Hand signed and dated by Wolf Kahn on the lower right Frame included: elegantly matted and framed in a wood frame with UV plexigla...

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"Four Winds" Blue House with White Roof in Yellow Field Abstract Landscape
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    How Wolf Kahn painted changed over the years. Throughout his career, Kahn achieved depth and texture by thinning his paint and building up his compositions with layers of brushstrokes. Toward the end of his life, he switched to using oil sticks, which allowed for more saturated colors. On 1stDibs, find a collection of Wolf Kahn art.