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Painter, draughtsman and printmaker, born in Stuttgart, Germany. Studied at the State School for Arts and Crafts, 1922–5, in 1926 working with Fernand Léger in Paris. Arrived in England in 1939, shortly after release from Nazi concentration camp. Was interned in Isle of Man in World War II, but went on working in the Expressionist style to which he remained faithful. Settled in London, living in poverty, his life being eased by the arrangement of a pension and marriage. In the 1920s and 1930s Kahn had showed in Stuttgart and Berlin, and although he did exhibit in Paris, Bruges and other continental capitals after World War II, he showed mainly in London, in group shows at Leger and Whitechapel Art Galleries and elsewhere. Redfern, Drian and Molton Galleries gave him solo exhibitions in the 1950s and 1960s and John Denham Gallery gave him a retrospective in 1980.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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