Wolf Kahn, a landscape painter who applied a vibrant, adventurous palette to studies of tangled forests and fog-shrouded mornings, quiet brooks and solitary barns, died March 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 92.

Hans Wolfgang Kahn was born in 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany. The family was well off, and Mr. Kahn spent his childhood in a house filled with art. But his father was Jewish, and the rise of Hitler put the family in jeopardy. In 1939, his grandmother arranged for him to be sent to England in the Kindertransport program, which spirited thousands of children out of Germany.

Mr. Kahn studied with the influential artist and teacher Hans Hofmann. At his first solo show, he made a strong impression. “The paint spills and runs,” the New York Times wrote. “Color crackles with vivacity, brush might as well have been guided by a tornado as by hand.”

Mr. Kahn’s paintings didn’t often include figures. In an interview with the gallerist Jerald Melberg in 2011, he described working on a painting in Italy in 1963. “I kept moving the figure,” Mr. Kahn said. “First it was here. Then it was there. And then finally I put it over here. Then finally I painted it out altogether. As soon as I painted the figure out, I was happy.”