Erich Kahn

Place: Stuttgart

Born: 1904

Death: 1971

Biography:

Erich Kahn was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1904 and studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart from 1921 to 1925. He was influenced by the Stuttgart Üecht group and a study trip to Paris in 1926, which led him to develop a preference for a late expressionist style. With the rise of the Nazi party to power in 1933, he found himself increasingly targeted for reprisals. During the November pogroms in 1938, he was detained and sent to the Welzheim protective custody camp. In July 1939, he successfully emigrated to Great Britain. Following the commencement of the German western campaign in 1940, Kahn, like all enemy aliens, was interned in Great Britain. He was sent to the Hutchinson Internment Camp on the Isle of Man, also known as the 'Artists' Camp'. He documented camp life through expressionist drawings and paintings. Kahn died in London in 1971.