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Wolf Kahn

Wolf Kahn (1927 - 2020) was active/lived in New York, Vermont / Germany.  Wolf Kahn is known for Abstract landscape and still life painting.

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Working within a predominantly abstractionist context, a group of younger artists forged a mode of representational* art in the 1950s and 1960s that made use of Abstract Expressionist* painterly freedom and spontaneity in order to document the life around them.  However, subject matter, including human figures, was recognizable, which was much against the grain of most of their peers.

Wolf Kahn, one of the leaders of this group and a native of Stuttgart, Germany, directed this approach toward the painting of the landscape, which he has steadfastly developed over a period of forty years.  With studios in New York and Vermont, he has been a colorist* who uses simplified geometric designs and contrasting, carefully balanced colors.  He has a fascination with barns that date to 1966 when he did a work titled First Barn Painting.  He returned to this subject throughout the 70s and 80s.  In 1999, a major exhibition of his work was held at the Morris Mu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 16281 characters.]  Artist bio

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