Wolf Kibel - Artist Info

About Wolf Kibel

  • Biography

    Wolf Kibel 1903 (Grodziska, Poland); died 1938 South Africa)

    Art Education
    Wolf Kibel studied art briefly as a boy in Poland under a visiting London painter Applebaum.
    1923 to 1925 Studied art under Professor Pick-Morina, Vienna.

    Biography:
    As a boy Wolf Kibel carved grotesques from his father's oil-stones.

    1911 His father's death brought insecurity into his life; was apprenticed to a purse-maker at nearby village of Kutna, haunted the library there and was dismissed from his work for day-dreaming; His decision to paint was determined by the praise of Applebaum.

    1923 to 1925 By the age of 20 Wolf Kibel fled to Vienna to escape conscription; aimed to get to Paris but did not have the funds; ...

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