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Ilse Kahane: Seated Man

DESCRIPTION

Ilse Kahane, Seated Man, 1990, Approximately 6 inches x 8 inches x 14 inches, Clay

Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $300

Seated Man

Ilse Kahane was born in 1925 in Frankfurt, Germany. She was a teenager during World War II and, as a Jew, she was sent to various labor and concentration camps until she was liberated on April 15, 1945 from Bergen Belsen. Coming to the United States in 1946, she earned a living as a waitress and started a family on the Lower East Side. In 1970, she started creating art – first ceramics and then clay and stone sculpture. She studied at the Educational Alliance and the Art Students League in NYC, and at art schools in Italy and Mexico. She said “sculpture restored my love of being alive, creating art has healed my wounds.” Among other exhibitions of her sculptures in NYC, her work is exhibited at the Art Museum at Yad Vashem in Israel. Several of her works have been sold and one of her pieces was purchased to honor Elie Wiesel, writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor Ilse Kahane passed away at 93 years old at her home in the Lower East Side. Her daughter, Michele Kahane, a resident of Park Slope Brooklyn, has donated this piece to Open Source Gallery.