Frederick Kann

American artist (1886–1965)

Frederick Kann

Born	(1886-05-25)May 25, 1886 Gablonz, Czechoslovakia
Died	July 6, 1965(1965-07-06) (aged 79) Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American (b. Czechoslovakia)
Known for	Painting, Educator
Movement	Abstract Expressionism

Frederick Kann (1886–1965) was an American painter and founding member of the American Abstract Artists.

Biography

Kann was born on May 25, 1886, in Gablonz, Bohemia (then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire). He studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.^[1] In 1920 he moved to New York where he worked as a commercial artist. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen the same year.^[2] He then moved to Paris, returning to the United States in 1936 to begin his teaching career at the Kansas City Art Institute.^[1]

He was a cofounder of the American Abstract Artists in 1936.^[3] In 1939 his work was included in the Galerie Charpentier's exhibition Realites Nouvelles Renaissance Plastique.^[1]

In 1943 Kann moved to Los Angeles.^[4] There he worked to promote Abstract artists' work by establishing the Circle Gallery, and co-found the Modern Institute of Art.^[5]^[4] In 1953 he started the Kann Institute of Art.^[1]

He died on July 6, 1965, in Los Angeles, California.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Frederick Kann". AskArt. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
^ Kann, Frederick I. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00097024. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 10 July 2020. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
^ "Founding Members". American Abstract Artists. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
^ ^a ^b Drost, Julia; Flahutez, Fabrice; Helmreich, Anne; Schieder, Martin (2020). Networking Surrealism in the USA: Agents, Artists, and the Market. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 393. ISBN 978-3-947449-51-4.
^ Karlstrom, Paul J. (1996). On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950. University of California Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-520-08850-4.