Misch kohn biography of abraham

MISCH KOHN: BEYOND THE TRADITION

Hernandez curated the  first major retrospective of work by Misch Kohn, one of the most significant master printmakers of the modern era in 1997. Hailed as a pioneer for “breaking the shackles of conventionality,” Kohn has been lauded for reinvigorating the field of printmaking in postwar America.

Born in 1916 in the small town of Kokomo, Indiana, Kohn began his professional life on the federally-funded Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.).

After a year in Mexico, where he met and worked with such local luminaries as José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera, he moved to Chicago and went on to international acclaim as a result of the continuing technical breakthroughs he achieved with each printmaking medium he investigated.

Pushing the limits of each medium to make it conform to his conceptual explorations, over the years he has moved from black-and-white interpretations of social and political issues to “all-media” ce