Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Wolf Kahn immigrated to the United States in 1940. He studied under Hans Hofmann and attended the University of Chicago. Kahn exhibited with the Grace Borgenicht Gallery from 1956 until 1995 and has has received awards including a Fulbright Scholarship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He is represented in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and MoMA, New York.