Wolf Kahn

Spring, Justin

ISBN 10: 0810963221 / ISBN 13: 9780810963221

Published by Harry N. Abrams, 1996

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128 illustrations including 100 plates in full color.
Wolf Kahn presents an overview of the artist's life and prolific career. Staring with the young Kahn's early years as a drawing prodigy, the author, Justin Spring, continues with the artist's study with Hans Hofmann, his early success as a latter-day Expressionist. and his early success as a painter of austere atonalist canvases, finally leading to the brilliant, high-keyed landscapes that have established hi reputation. In the author's words this remarkable artist's life has been, "notwithstanding its monumental early tragedies, a peripatetic and ultimately joyful one, which reads, despite many years' hard work . like a modern-day adventure story.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wolf Kahn
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810963221
• ISBN 13: 9780810963221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Dimensions: 1W x 10.5H x 12.25D inches 1 inches width by 10.5 inches height by 12.25 inches depth
• Weight: 3.501 pounds

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Synopsis

Book by Spring, Justin

Reviews

Austere in design, American painter Wolf Kahn's landscapes, pure constructions of color and light, evoke a world of timeless beauty. In this exceptionally attractive monograph featuring 100 color plates, art critic and novelist Spring traces Kahn's wildly exuberant experimentation in an informal chronicle based on interviews with the artist and his associates. Born in 1927 in Germany to a Jewish orchestra conductor and a mother who died in a sanatorium when he was five, Kahn was shipped to England in 1939 and was reunited with his father in the U.S. one year later. In the late 1940s, Kahn studied with abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann, a purist for whom art was a sacred calling. Absorbing the lessons of Van Gogh and Pierre Bonnard, he achieved in his mature work an original vision concerned with the direct, sensual experience of color. His serene late pictures of woods and sunsets radiate an air of spiritual transcendence. Painter/critic Finkelstein illuminates the dialogue between abstraction and representation in Kahn's work.

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