Wolf Kahn.

Justin Spring.

ISBN 10: 0810963221 / ISBN 13: 9780810963221

Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1996

About this Item

Provides an overview of Kahn's life and prolific career. 164 pages, with an essay by Louis Finkelstein. 128 illustrations including 100 full color plates. Area of sun-fading to jacket. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the title page, 'To Stanley the Shofar (Chauffeur) with Thanks, Wolf Kahn.' Stanley Reifer was a New York real estate developer and Asian art collector with a sprawling home in Sag Harbor on Long Island's East End. He was also a modern art aficionado and had an interest in Jewish history and culture. Kahn, 1927-2020, was a German-born American painter. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1940 and studied under Hans Hofmann. His style combines the freedom & spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism with representational art, especially landscapes. Dust Jacket condition very good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wolf Kahn.
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810963221
• ISBN 13: 9780810963221
• Binding: Large format hardcover.
• Condition: Fine.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: SIGNED and INSCRIBED by artist
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art, Design, Antiques

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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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