Louis Kahan Ao

Místo: Vienna

Narozený: 1905

Smrt: 2002

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Louis Kahan AO was an Austrian-born Australian artist. He was born in Vienna on May 25, 1905, and initially trained as a tailor with his father. However, he was particularly drawn to art and began sketching his father's clients, who were famous actors and musicians of the day. In 1925, he traveled to Paris, where he worked with renowned couturier Paul Poiret as a tailor and then as a designer. During this time, he met many artists, including Matisse, Dufy, and Vlaminck, and designed costumes for Josephine Baker, Collette, and the Follies Bergeres. He also began life drawing in Montparnasse and produced freelance illustrations for newspapers and magazines. In 1939, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion and served as a war artist in North Africa, producing over 2,000 drawings of wounded soldiers being cared for in the hospital at Oran. He was represented in most major collections in Australia, Europe, and the USA and won the Archibald Prize in 1962 with a portrait of Patrick White. He died in 2002.