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Name: Franz Kline
Birth Date: 1910
Death Date: May 13, 1962
Place of Birth: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter

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Biography of Franz Kline
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Franz Kline (1910-1962), American painter, was one of the foremost abstract expressionists. His best-known works are large calligraphic paintings. Franz Kline was born to an immigrant family living in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Following high school, Kline...


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Franz Kline ( May 23 , 1910 - May 13 , 1962 ) was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist group which was centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting....


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Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist painters who were centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting....


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Artforum International
Franz Kline: the Menil collection.
12/01/1994: 1,651 words, approx. 6 pages
"You instinctively like what you can't do," Franz Kline said in a 1958 interview, referring to the precise yet ethereal style of Fra Angelico. Like many other statements of the period, Kline's remark was probably coaxed forth by the interviewer (in this case,...
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Art Journal
Gottlieb and Kline. (artists Adolph Gottlieb and Franz Kline)
03/22/1996: 4,307 words, approx. 14 pages
Artists Adolph Gottlieb and Franz Kline worked in the Abstract Expressionist style that developed in the 1940s and the 1950s. Gottlieb produced pictographs that were characterized as primitivist and tribal in the way he simplified forms and portrayed mythological images. Meanwhile, Franz Kline developed...
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The New York Observer
Bohemian Boys Club
5/1/2007: 542 words, approx. 2 pages
A couple of years ago, the O.K. Harris Gallery organized an exhibition of late sculptures by Philip Pavia (1912–2005). Pavia died shortly after this tantalizing show of large primitivistic heads, his achievements as an artist largely lost to history. A photo of Pavia’s 1961 exhibition...
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The New York Observer
Serendipitous Convergence Hooks Up Sax and Splatter
6/18/2006: 624 words, approx. 2 pages
Ornette Coleman stands before Jackson Pollock’s Number 13 (1949), one of the more poetic splatter paintings, ferociously dense yet airily light. He ponders it for several minutes, tracing his index finger over its subtler patterns. “These don’t look like strokes,” he finally says in his...
 


 

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