Leo Kahn
Leo Kahn ( August 5, 1894 in Bruchsal - September 27, 1983 in Ramat Gan , Israel) was a German-Israeli painter.
After graduating from high school with a high school diploma , he trained as a carpenter and then entered the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts . In 1919/20 he was a student of Albert Haueisen in Frankfurt. In 1919 he married Elisabeth Levy from Ulm. In 1920 he was appointed to the academy in Karlsruhe as successor to Wilhelm Trübner and was entrusted with the reorganization of the academy. He had his first major exhibition in 1921 with Wilhelm Schnarrenberger in a Karlsruhe gallery. In 1927/1928 he took over the painting of the synagogue in Bruchsal . From 1925 to 1935 he lived in Ulm and in 1936 emigrated to Palestine with four children (Josef, Fanny, Jakob and Bertha) .
Before emigrating, Leo Kahn taught drawing from January to March 1936 at the Jewish school home in Herrlingen .
In 1952, Kahn received the Dizengoff Prize at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art , the most recognized award in the field of fine arts in Israel.
literature
- Leonhard Föcher: The Bruchsal painter Leo Kahn. An artist of the forgotten generation. In: Hierzuland 2003, pp. 28–32.
- Jürgen Stude: History of the Jews in Bruchsal. Publications on the history of the city of Bruchsal . tape 23 . regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-441-8 . , Pp. 160-168.
Web links
- Literature by and about Leo Kahn in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lucie Schachne: Education for spiritual resistance: The Jewish Landschulheim Herrlingen 1933-1939, dipa-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-7638-0509-5 , p. 142
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kahn, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruchsal |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1983 |
| Place of death | Ramat Gan |