Franz Kline
Franz Kline (born May 23, 1910 in Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania , † May 13, 1962 in New York ) was an American painter .
life and work
Franz Kline was one of the leading exponents of abstract expressionism in the USA. From 1931 to 1935 he studied at the "School of Fine and Applied Arts" and at the "University of Boston". After studying art at the Heatherly School of Fine Arts in London in 1937 , Kline moved to New York in 1938 and moved into his own studio. Between 1952 and 1954 he was a teacher at various institutes, such as Black Mountain College , the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn , and the Philadelphia Museum School of Art .
At first stylistically influenced by American realism with Cubist influences, he began with representational cityscapes of New York in the 1930s. Inspired by the dynamism, speed and restlessness of urban America, he stepped into abstraction on ever larger painting grounds. In these works, he explained, “he paints experiences”. Towards the end of his artistic activity, his paintings completely break away from abstraction and become non-representational and are limited to an extremely small spectrum of colors with a strong ductus and rough brushwork. An example from this period is the collage with oil paint on paper from 1958, which is untitled ( Untitled ). Alongside Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Kline is one of the initiators of action painting .
Franz Kline was a participant in documenta II (1959) and - posthumously - documenta III in 1964 in Kassel .
Awards and honors
- 1944: "SJ Wallace Truman Prize" from the National Academy of Design , New York
- 1957: Prize of the "Art Institute of Chicago"
- 1960: American Department of Education Award; on the occasion of his exhibition in Venice in the same year
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1942–1938: National Academy of Design, New York; (annual exhibitions)
- 1950: Egan Gallery, New York; (Solo exhibition)
- 1951: 9th Street Art Exhibition
- 1956: Twelve Americans in the Museum of Modern Art , New York
- 1958: Galleria la Tartaruga, Rome
- 1958: Galleria del Naviglio, Milan
- 1960: 30th Venice Biennale , Venice
Works
- 1955: Vawdavitch . Oil on canvas, 204.9 × 158.1 cm. Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts, London 2016.
- 1957: Untitled . Oil on canvas, 200.7 cm × 280.4 cm. Christie's, New York, November 14, 2012, $ 36M.
literature
- Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (ed.): Insights. The 20th Century in the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection, Düsseldorf , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000; ISBN 3-7757-0853-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ Honor, Fleming: Weltgeschichte der Kunst , p. 611
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Kline in the catalog of the German National Library
- Some pictures at Artchive.com
- Materials by and about Franz Kline in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kline, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1962 |
| Place of death | new York |