Wolf Kahn

WOLF KAHN was one of the most highly regarded colorists working before his death in 2020. By blurring the boundaries between pictorial landscape and painterly abstraction, he evoked an ethereal world, a world marked by epiphanies. Kahn centered his paintings on the way masses of saturated hues can be made to “push and pull” each other into space. A summer sunset blazes with a very intense red; a thicket of trees distilled to their most elemental, silhouetted by a luminous yellow light. Kahn utilized scenery that was universal and transforms shape and color into something wholly unique.