Wolf Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927. The son of the conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, he was sent to live with his grandmother in Frankfurt when he was three years old. Kahn left Germany in 1939 as an eleven-year-old refugee from Nazi Germany to live in England. The grandmother who raised him perished in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt during World War II. In 1940 Kahn joined his father, two brothers, and sister who had settled in the United States and became a student at New York’s High School of Music and Art. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After the war ended, he used the GI Bill to study with the well-known teacher and abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann. Kahn became Hofmann’s studio assistant. After completing his Baccalaureate at the University of Chicago in just one year’s time, Kahn emerged determined to become a professional artist. He joined with a group of other former Hofmann students to establish The Hansa, a cooperative gallery. Though his first two shows there were favorably received, sales of his work were slow in the beginning and he was forced to teach part-time. By 1955 Kahn was able to devote himself entirely to painting, although he would still occasionally teach classes (at the University of California, Berkeley; Dartmouth, and Cooper Union). Kahn exhibits regularly at Beadleston Gallery in New York City; Addison/Ripley Fine Arts in Washington D.C.; Thomas Segal Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland; Reynolds Gallery Richmond, Virginia; Marianne Friedland Gallery in Toronto, Ontario and Naples, Florida; and Stremmel Gallery in Reno, Nevada. In 1997 Harry A. Abrams Publishing Company released a large-format, four-color monograph entitled "Wolf Kahn", by Justin Spring. Kahn also authored Wolf Kahn "Pastels" (Harry A. Abrams, 2000). |
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