Spindly and Orange
Wolf Kahn (Stuttgart 1927)
Lot-No. 659
Proceeds : 1.200 €
Pastel, 17 x 23 cm, lo. le. sign. W. Kahn, on the backing cardboard on gallery label titled as well as dat. 1999, matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of glass. - US-American painter with German origins. With his parents he emigrated via England to the US in 1939. He studied at Hans Hofmann's art school in New York as well as at the Chicago university until 1951. K. was honoured among others with a Fulbrigt scholarship a. a Guggenheim fellowship. His lyrical landscapes unites elements of colour field painting a. realism. - Mus.: New York (Metrop. Mus., Whitney Mus.), Washington (Smithsonian Mus.), Los Angeles (LACM) a. others. - Lit.: Vollmer.
Wolf Kahn: Spindly and Orange
Spindly and Orange
Lot-No. 659
Proceeds : 1.200 €
Pastel, 17 x 23 cm, lo. le. sign. W. Kahn, on the backing cardboard on gallery label titled as well as dat. 1999, matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of glass. - US-American painter with German origins. With his parents he emigrated via England to the US in 1939. He studied at Hans Hofmann's art school in New York as well as at the Chicago university until 1951. K. was honoured among others with a Fulbrigt scholarship a. a Guggenheim fellowship. His lyrical landscapes unites elements of colour field painting a. realism. - Mus.: New York (Metrop. Mus., Whitney Mus.), Washington (Smithsonian Mus.), Los Angeles (LACM) a. others. - Lit.: Vollmer.