Artist: Franz Kline (1910 - 1962)
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Franz Kline began his career as a painter creating urban landscapes and other realistic subjects. Towards the end of the 1940’s, he turned to abstraction after being influenced by Willem de Kooning. He developed his own unique style, using large brushstrokes to create bold black and white patterned paintings. He did not begin using color in his paintings until late in his life but always preferred black and white. Kline died of heart disease in 1962 and is remembered as one of the most original Abstract Expressionists.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Aaron Siskind - Lima 89 (Homage to Franz Kline) 1975 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Franz Kline Two Seated Women black ink and pastel circa mid 20th century
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© 2001 The Franz Kline Estate/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Franz Kline,
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© 2001 The Franz Kline Estate/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Franz Kline,
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The Ballantine, Franz Kline (United States, Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre, 1910 - 1962) , 1958-1960, Oil on canvas
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Study for Initial, Franz Kline (United States, Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre, 1910 - 1962) , 1959, Ink on paper
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Franz Kline - C & O 1958 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Franz Kline - Untitled 1957 oil and charcoal on Hirshhorn Museum American
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Franz Kline - Delaware Gap 1958 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Franz Kline - Untitled 1948 oil and collage on p Hirshhorn Museum American
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Franz Kline - Le Gros 1961 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Franz Kline - Chief 1950 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Franz Kline - Siskind 1958 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Franz Kline - Four Square 1956 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Franz Kline - Palladio 1961 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Franz Kline - Monitor 1956 Oil on canvas The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Franz Kline - Buttress 1956 Oil on canvas The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Franz Kline - Untitled 1955 oil on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts American
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Jacob Eichholtz - Mr. Kline c. 1808 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Franz Kline - Orange Outline 1955 oil on paperboard, m North Carolina Museum of Art American
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Franz Kline - Zinc Yellow 1959 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art American
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Franz Kline - Accent Grave 1955 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Franz Kline - Painting Number 2 1954 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Georg Baselitz - Mann im Mond- Franz Pforr (Man in the Moon - Franz Pforr) 1965 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art German
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Franz Stober Franz Napoleon, Herzog von Reichstadt 18th - 19th century
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Franz Marc, Franz Marc (Germany, Munich, 1880 - 1916) , circa 1936, Printed material
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Franz Marc Eidechsen (Lizards) Woodcut 1912
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Franz Marc: Gedächtnis-Ausstellung: Gemälde und Aquarelle/Holzschnitte, Franz Marc (Germany, Munich, 1880 - 1916) , 1916, Printed material and one woodcut on wove paper
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Franz Marc Versˆhnung (Reconciliation) Woodcut 1912
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Franz Marc Schlafende Hirtin (Sleeping Shepherdess) Woodcut 1912
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Portrait de Franz von Seitz en costume oriental (1876) by HANFSTAENGL Franz
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Franz Marc Schlafende Hirtin (Sleeping Shepherdess) Woodcut 1912
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Franz Marc Schˆpfungsgeschichte I (Tiere)I (Creation Story I Animals) Woodcut 1914
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Portrait of a Man, Said to Be Arnold Franz Imitator of Hans Holbein the Younger
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Franz Der Konigsbergische Creis 1793
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Portrait de Franz Lang, de profil à gauche (4e quart 17e siècle ; 18e siècle) by KOBELL Wilhelm von
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The Sower, Franz Keller (Germany, Linz, 1821 - 1896)  (Artist), Engraving
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Franz Marc "Pferde (horses)" from the book Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) (Munich: R. Piper Co., 1912) Watercolor 1912
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Franz T. Simon Windy Day on Seashore Etching 1909
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Franz Geritz The Magyar etching 1924
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Franz Geritz Butte Mt. woodcut 1924
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Franz Skarbina Droschke im Regen (Cab in the Rain) Lithograph 1896
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Franz Skarbina Rainy Night Lithograph 1896
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Franz Edmund Weirotter L'Automne 18th century
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Franz Edmund Weirotter L'EstÈ 18th century
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Franz Edmund Weirotter Le Printemps 18th century
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Franz T. Simon Leaving Church 19th - 20th century
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Franz Ludwig Catel The Small Crater of Mt. Vesuvius watercolor 1834
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Franz Schwarz Studie K.K. Kunsthochschule Historisches Museum drawing: graphite and ink 1910
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Untitled, Franz Stoeffhase  (Artist), 1920, Lithograph on wove paper
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Franz Geritz Mt. San Jacinto Color woodcut 1927
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Franz Geritz Mt. Whitney block print 1927
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Boy Reading, Franz Xaver Jungwirth (Germany, Munich, 1720 - 1790) , Etching
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Head of a Boy, Franz Xaver Jungwirth (Germany, Munich, 1720 - 1790) , Etching
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Vredaparis (Frieda Paris) Homage to Franz Kafka Collagraph 1961
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Franz Grundrifs des Manoevre Platzes bei Potsdam... 1804
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Franz von Stuck Die Sinnlichkeit (Sensuality) etching 1898
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Franz Edmund Weirotter A Cottage Etching 18th century
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Sophia of Poland Attributed to Franz Wolfgang Rohrich (German, 1787-1834)Oil on canvas; 30 1/4 x
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Anonymous Lion Attacking a Wild Boar (after Franz Snyders) lithograph 1822

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (25)
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Fred R. Kline Gallery: Call to Artists: Second Annual National Drawing Exhibition
Slide Entries and Fee Slides (3) must be 35 mm, 2" x 2", no glass, to fit standard slide projector. Slides must be clearly marked with "top", "front", and the artist's name, title of work, medium, and number as listed on the entry card. Maxim...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Jackson Pollock, Robert Frank, and the New American Vision: Drawings and Photographs from the Fo
In photography, Harry Callahan, Nathan Lyons, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White followed diverse paths in the pursuit of abstraction. ...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57
Founded in North Carolina in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, a dissident Classical academic, it attracted a star-studded cast of teachers and students who forged a dramatic shift from a Eurocentric art world to a distinctly American one. Rice invited Jo...
Plus Ultra Gallery: Salon Style: An Exhibition of Photography
Representing a broad range of innovative photographic techniques, the work in Salon Style is unified conceptually through a shared exploration of the relationship between landscapes and objects. Sometimes front-and-center, sometimes quite ob...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary: F A Room of Their Own: From Rothko to Rauschenberg
This presentation together with A Room of Their Own: From Oldenburg to Gober will span more than 50 years of contemporary art. The exhibition is co-organized by MOCA chief cu...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Art at Midcentury: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The exhibition opens with art by European and Latin American artists such as Max Ernst and Matta, whose work was to play a defining role in shaping the New Yor...
Bayly Art Museum: This is Not a Photograph: Fifteen Contemporary Artists
Within that broad definition, This is Not a Photograph, showcases the works of contemporary artists who experiment with the tools, materials and processes of photography. Some of the artists do use objects; others create images from photographic m...
Pan Pacific Singapore, Public Art Space: Parallel Journeys: Valerie Ng, Wyn-Lyn Tan and Yeo Shih Yun
Wyn-Lyn Tan A graduate in Business Administration, Tan attended the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2001 where she specialized in Western and Chinese Painting. She also obtained a Bachelor of Art from RMIT-Laselle SIA in 2003. A self-descrip...
Southeast Museum of Photography: Photojournalism from James Nachtwey, Robert Lerner and John Cohen
A Lens To The World - Photographs by Robert Lerner This retrospective exhibition surveys Bob Lerner's work for Look magazine during its heyday in the fifties and sixties. During his career Lerner photographed throughout the world and in all ...
Vincent Pepi: Artist Expands Offering of Limited Edition Prints through absolutearts.com
Upon his return to the United States, the artist studied briefly with Hans Hofmann, painting works parallel with Pollock, DeKooning, Kline, Marcarelli and others. Like so many others, he felt Surrealism's impact, adapting automatic techniques and ...
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: Concrete Abstraction: Aaron Siskind Photographs
Aaron Siskind dedicated a series of his mature photographs to Franz Kline, one of the New York painters with whom he was friends. For his part, Siskind's legacy lay in using straight photography to create co...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Gestures: Postwar American and European Abstraction from the Permanent Collection
Abstract Expressionism and art informel emerged independently of one another in the mid-1940s and flourished during a redefining period. After World War II, the cultural environment in the United States was, by today’s standards, extremely natio...
Fogg Museum, Harvard: Philip Guston: A New Alphabet Brings Pivotal Group of Paintings Together for First Time
The exhibition is co-organized by Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art at the Fogg Art Museum, and Joanna Weber, acting curator of European and contemporary art at the Yale Art Gallery, with the help of Laura Greengold, a recent graduate ...
instinc: blackrain: Work by Yeo Shih Yun
One such technique resembles rain falling on the paper—Shih Yun is experimenting not only with the radical conflict between the two "colorless" colors (black and white), but also their interaction and interdependence. In her works, black and whit...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami: Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949 – 2002)
Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949 – 2002) is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by MOCA Director Bonnie Clearwater. Following its MOCA presentation, the exhibition will be on view at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: there is no eye: Photographs by John Cohen
there is no eye: Photographs by John Cohen features a collection of more than 130 modern black and white photographs that reflect Cohen’s passion for art and music. The exhibition will be on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art from October 17, 200...
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao: Changing Perceptions: The Panza Collection
Dr. and Mrs. Giuseppe Panza di Biumo began acquiring art in 1956; today, together with private holdings, the Panza collection includes over 2,500 works. Between 1966 and 1975 the Panzas amassed one of the most ambitious collections of...
Forte de S. Joao: The First International Canvas Competition: The Colors of Age
Doug Kinsey states about his work: "When looking at my work the viewer should consider them as configurations of spiritual geography. In this manner I refer to them as, “Interior/Exterior Landscapes. "The primary blue shape will refer to...
Sprengel Musuem: How you look at it: 20th-century Photography
The exhibition How you look at it. 20th-century Photography offers a chance to take stock. It starts by showing how photography has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, mainly obvious by its growing presence in museums w...
Vincent Pepi: First Generation Abstract Expressionist Offers Limited Editions through absolutearts.com
View and order Rome 507M at: 507M. "As ongoing research enriches the already remarkable story of mid-20th-century painte...
Baron Gallery: Paintings from the Past become Icons for the Future For Hyacinthe Kuller Baron
To the artist’s delight she discovers the whereabouts of many of the early paintings she thought lost to her forever. In the past art galleries did not feel it necessary to inform the artist when a sale was made. 1962 - Christopher Street, ...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Passionate and Obstinate: The Lois Orswell Collection
Passionate and Obstinate (the phrase is Orswell’s self-description) will feature works from the Lois Orswell Collection as a cohesive group for the first time. Orswell was a distinctive collector whose methods were unlike those of her contemporari...
Smithsonian, National Museum of American Art and its Rewick Gallery: Treasures to Go!
`Storing treasures that attract more than half a million visitors each year was not an option the staff wanted to consider,` said Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonians American Art Museum. Instead, in January the museum is laun...
Baron Gallery: For Artist Hyacinthe Kuller-Baron, Life Comes Full Circle as Paintings from the Past become Icons for the Future Exhibited only on Internet Art Galleries
In the 2000’s they discovered a more economical and successful venue on the Internet. Since 2003 Hyacinthe Baron exhibited her art on a Premiere Portfolio on absolutearts.com and received 500 to 5000 visitors a day and as many as 11,000 and more v...

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