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Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock , Willem de Kooning , Robert Motherwell , John Ferren , and Lee Krasner , as well as local poets, dancers, and musicians came to be ...
Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s.
Franz Kline is most famous for his black and white abstractions, which have been likened variously to New York's cityscape, the landscape of his childhood home in rural Pennsylvania, and Japanese calligraphy.
Franz Kline was an American artist who was one of the leading painters of the post-World War II Abstract Expressionist movement. Kline studied at Boston University (1931–35) and at the Heatherley School of Art, London (1937–38), settling in New York City in the latter year.
Franz Kline was an American Abstract Expressionist known for his distinctive monochromatic paintings. View Franz Kline’s 848 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s.
Franz Kline began his career as a figurative painter, but in the late 1940s, he used a projector to enlarge his drawing of a black rocking chair onto the wall. Intrigued by the way the image appeared abstract when it was enlarged, he decided to dedicate himself to creating large-scale, black-on-white abstract works.
Franz Kline was an important figure in the abstract expressionist movement, also known as the New York school. This diverse group of artists, including Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, produced large-scale abstractions that helped establish New York as the center of contemporary art after World War II.
Painter, Abstract Expressionist. Early in his career, Kline painted landscapes, street scenes and portraits. His mature style was abstract, distinctive for its broad, highly charged black strokes on a white ground.
