Auction 51
Lot 109:
Watercolor on paper, the Old City of Tzfat painted by Leo Kahn, signed in Latin characters.
Inside a frame and protected by glass (not checked outside the frame), 46x36cm.
Leo Kahn (1894-1983) was a German-Israeli painter born in Bruchsal, Germany. He moved to Israel in the 1930s and also worked as a textile designer. From the 1960s he lived of the time in the Artist’s Colony of Tzfat. His earlier work, which has not been preserved, was religious in nature. In the 1930s he began to move closer to the Expressionist circles in Germany and France. Most of his works were paintings which involved classical themes such as still-lives, portraits, and more.
He studied from 1919-1920 at the Academy of Fine Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, where he studied under Albert Hueinsen; in 1920 he studied textile design in Frankfurt-am-Mein at A. I. G. Farben. He won the Dizengoff Prize in 1957 and the Ramat Gan municipality awarded him a recognition award in 1982.
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