biography of Frederick I. KANN (1886-1965)

Birth place: Gablonz, Czechoslovakia

Addresses: Canada, 1905; NYC; Paris, 1928-36; Kansas City, MO, 1936-42; Los Angeles, CA, 1946-on

Profession: Abstract painter, designer, teacher, sculptor, writer

Studied: Art Acad., Prague; Art Acad., Munich.

Exhibited: Abstract Création, Paris, 1934; Midwest Artists Exh., Kansas City, 1937 (prize).

Member: Am. Abstract Artists, 1937-40s; Council of All. Artists; AAPL; Abstract Création, Paris.

Work: Posters, Chemin de Fer d'Etat Français; MusÈe d'Ethnographie du Trocadero, Paris.

Comments: He began painting abstractions in 1928, in Paris. Contributor: French magazines; article, "In Defense of Abstract Art" in Am. Abstract Artists yearbook (1938). Position: instructor, Kansas City AI (1936-42); Chouinard AI, Los Angeles, CA; dir., Kann Inst. Art, W. Hollywood, CA (1953).

Sources: WW53; WW47; Diamond, Thirty-Five American Modernists p.40; American Abstract Art, 189