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Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
Wolf Kahn
Wolf Kahn (1927 - 2020): A Landscape of Light and Emotion Wolf Kahn was born Hans Wolfgang Kahn in Stuttgart, Germany, on October 19, 1927, the youngest of four children. His father, Emil Kahn, a respected musician and conductor with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, experienced a profound setback when his position was revoked in 1933 due to Nazi persecution—a foreshadowing of the turbulent years ahead. The family’s subsequent evac
uation from Germany entrusted young Wolf to the care of his maternal grandmother Anna Kahn in Frankfurt until 1939, marking an early period of displacement and fostering a nascent artistic inclination; he began sketching at the age of four, captivated by military pageantry and historical figures. This formative experience instilled within him a sensitivity to vulnerability and longing that would subtly permeate his later oeuvre. Early…
