ANTIQUE MODERN EXPRESSIONIST PORTRAIT OIL PAINTING OLD VINTAGE ABSTRACT KAHN 62

CAPTIVATING ANTIQUE MODERN EXPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS ATTRIBUTED TO NEW YORK MODERNIST PAINTER WOLF KAHN. (American 1927-2020). THIS WORK DEPICTS A VIVID EXPRESSIONISTIC WOMAN PORTRAIT SUPERBLY RENDERED IN THE MODERNIST STYLE. MOST LIKELY THE WORK OF WOLF KAHN (1927-2020). IT IS SIGNED BY KAHN AND DATED 1962. PERHAPS YOU RECOGNIZE THE ARTIST? EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. MILD SCRATCHES TO THE FRAME. IT DOES NOT DETRACT FROM ITS BEAUTY IN ANY WAY. PROVENANCE: PRIVATE COLLECTION, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA. DIMENSIONS: 21” H x 17” W Wolf Kahn (1927 - 2020) was active/lived in New York, Vermont / Germany. Wolf Kahn is known for Abstract landscape and still life painting. An important member of the second-generation New York School, Wolf Kahn is renowned for his luminous, richly colored landscapes. Focusing on such thematic imagery as the tended fields, houses, and sturdy barns of New England, Kahn's work represents a masterful synthesis of illusionistic representation and abstraction. Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927. As a boy, he studied painting and drawing in Frankfurt. In 1939 his family was separated by the Nazi upheaval, and Kahn was sent to Cambridge, England, with other refugee children. One year later, he arrived in New York City, where he was united with his father, a noted musician. Kahn continued his education at the New York High School of Music and Art, graduating in 1945. In 1946 after a brief period of service in the Navy, he worked under Stuart Davis at the New School for Social Research. From 1947 until 1949, Kahn attended Hans Hofmann's School of Fine Art in New York. He also spent a summer as Hofmann's studio assistant in Provincetown. In 1950 Kahn enrolled at the University of Chicago, receiving his bachelor's degree a year later. After a period of traveling across the continent and working in Oregon as a lumberjack, he returned to New York and resumed painting. In 1956, along with several other of Hofmann's former students, he helped found the Hansa Gallery, one of the first artists' co-operative loft galleries. During these years, Kahn was one of several young artists, including Elaine de Kooning and Robert De Niro, who was influenced by action painting but, at the same time, felt the need to reintroduce nature back into their art. Kahn's early work consists of still lifes and figure studies, which show the influence of Hofmann's "push-pull" space and his gestural energy. However, Kahn's mature style revolves around the portrayal of un-peopled landscapes in which he combines an expressive chromaticism (inspired by Milton Avery and Mark Rothko) with an emphasis on the dynamics of light and atmosphere. Many critics describe him as a Luminist, carrying on the 19th-century tradition but with a thoroughly modern sensibility. Kahn draws much of his subject matter from the landscape in and around his farm in Vermont, where he spends his summers. Kahn has had numerous solo exhibitions organized by such institutions as the San Diego Museum of Art (1984, 1987), the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (1882), the Arts Club of Chicago (1981), and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (1979). He is also the recipient of many awards and prized, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1966-67). Examples of Kahn's work can be found in most of America's major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, to name only a few.