Louis Kahan b. 25 May 1905

Also known as Ludwig Kahan
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Designer (Theatre / Film Designer)
Louis Kahan was a versatile, multi-talented artist and designer. He served in the French Foreign Legion and worked as a tailor in Paris where he associated with Josephine Baker and Matisse. He settled in Australia in 1947 and was best known as a sketcher and painter, winning the Archibald with a portrait of Patrick White in 1962.
Tags: Archibald Prize

Citations

  • Klepac, Lou (2002), 'Guy from Paris bloomed in Perth’, Sydney Morning Herald, 08-15, p 30, obituary piece.

  • Information sourced from 'Germaine C-D Rom’.

  • Information sourced from McCulloch.

  • Information sourced from Klepac, Lou.

See also

  • 'Self portrait: 'The Artist and His Tools - The Artist's Only Woodcut' 1947, woodcut (edn 80), illustrated Butler 1981 (also illustrated as 'Self Portrait' in Lebovic & Warner, Fifty Years, cat.39'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists