Wolf Kahn
Wolf Kahn
is widely regarded as one of America's most prominent and influential
landscape painters. An intense involvement with light and color dominates his
paintings, and redefines the world of nature. Wolf Kahn was born in Stuttgart Germany in 1927 and immigrated to the United States in 1940. In the late 1940's he
studied painting at the famous Hans Hofmann School in New York -- a breeding ground for ambitious
painters. Wolf Kahn in the 1950's
emerged as a member of the representational wing of a wave of abstract
expressionism. His art continued to evolve and by the late 1960's had emerged
into fully chromatic mature works. Kahn's paintings today offer a successful
resolution of the language of abstraction together with the perception of landscape.
Kahn's best paintings convey to the
viewer the sumptuous luminosity of a sunset over water, the dazzling light of a
summer meadow, the veiled light of late summer in Vermont. The colors shimmer
and hover and disappear, only to reappear again, in a harmony that is fresh and
vibrant and new.
Exhibitions:
2004 National Academy of Design Museum, "The Artist's Eye: Wolf Kahn
as Curator," New York, NY
2003 178th Annual Exibition. National Academy of Design, New York
2001 The Dust on Butterfly Wings: 50
years of Pastels, First Street Gallery, New York
2001 Museum
fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
2000 Jerald Melberg
Gallery, Charlotte, North
Carolina
2000 Wolf Kahn Paintings and Pastels,
Beadleston Gallery, New York
1997 The Hansa
Gallery (1952-59) Revisited, Zabriskie Gallery, 41 New York
1997 A Tribute to Grace Borgenicht
Gallery, The 1950's: The First Decade, DC Moore Gallery, New York
1996 Pastels
by Fish, Frank, Jacquette, Kahn, Knott, Lawrence, Levine, Wright, DC Moore Gallery, New York
Collections:
National Academy of Design, New York City Hirshhorn
Museum, Washington D.C.
Smithsonian Art Museum, Washington D.C. Arts
Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MIT List
Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Brooklyn
Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Dallas
Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Carnegie Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Jewish
Museum, New York, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Hickory
Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, TX
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield,
MA
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA San
Diego Museum of Art, CA