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The catalogue raisonné, Franz Kline Paintings, 1950–1962, provides the first online compendium of Kline’s art during crucial years in his practice. It is intended both for the general public and as a scholarly resource to enable further research and understanding of Kline’s art.
Black, White, and Gray. Franz Kline American. 1959. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 919. Composed of broad, sweeping, and luscious strokes, Black, White, and Gray suggests unrestrained artistic spontaneity. Yet Kline’s process was quite methodical. He typically began with a sketch, which he projected onto a wall, transforming ...
Franz Kline (b. 1910, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; d. 1962, New York) studied at Boston University and at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London, before settling in New York. His work was included in the groundbreaking exhibition The New American Painting at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1958, traveled to Basel, Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and London).
Aug 30, 2023 · Abstract Expressionism, Modern art, and Action painting. Franz Kline was born on May 23, 1910, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Growing up in a working-class family, he experienced the industrial landscape of Pennsylvania, which would later inspire his iconic artistic style. Kline’s early exposure to the coal mines and steel mills instilled in ...
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 known as the informal group, the New York School.
Franz Kline was an American Abstract Expressionist known for his distinctive monochromatic paintings. View Franz Kline’s 846 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
My most extensive Kline project was the exhibition and catalogue, Franz Kline: Coal and Steel (2012–13, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York). The exhibition connected the artist’s long and complex history of figurative art produced prior to 1950 with his later abstract paintings, and argued that Kline’s visual, social, and emotional experiences in anthracite coal country were essential to the genesis of his mature work.
