Kahn's use of color has placed him at the forefront of American representational art, and has made him one of the most highly regarded and sought-after colorists working today. Embarking on his 87th year, he continues to focus on the landscape as his subject, simplifying and creating planes of color to form abstracted images.
Wolf Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927 and immigrated to the United States by way of England in 1940. In 1945, he graduated from the High School of Music & Art in New York, after which he spent time in the Navy. Under the GI Bill, he studied with renowned teacher and Abstract Expressionist painter Hans Hofmann, before eventually becoming Hofmann’s studio assistant. Kahn graduated from University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1951.
Kahn has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Cooper Union Art School, and Dartmouth College. He has received a Fulbright Scholarship, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and an award in art from the Academy of Arts and Letters
