Hiding from the Nazis: The Art of Johannes Kunst

A new exhibition at Seattle’s Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) explores the aftermath of World War II in Holland and the US through the visual art of Johannes Kunst (1938 – 2017). Focusing on one body of work by the Dutch-American artist who lived in Blaine, Washington, CoCA and Guest Curator Matthew Kangas present Hiding from the Nazis: The Art of Johannes Kunst, a survey of the paintings done later in life relating to a two-year period during World War II when the artist and his brother hid in the attic of their grandparents’ house in Opeinde to protect them from conscription into slave labor in Germany.

image: “The Birds II”, mixed media on paper, 20×16″, 7-27-1972