Franz Kline

1910–1962

Franz Kline, ‘Meryon’ 1960–1
Meryon 1960–1
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Biography

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. Although he explored the same innovations to painting as the other artists in this group, Kline's work is distinct in itself and has been revered since the 1950s.

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Abstract expressionism Action painters

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Franz Kline, ‘Meryon’ 1960–1

Franz Kline Meryon

1960–1
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Features

In Focus

Contested Comparisons: Franz Kline and Japanese Calligraphy

Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer

Essay by Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer for In Focus study by AnnMarie Perl on Meryon 1960–1 by Franz Kline, a Tate ...
Photograph of Rose Hill, home of entrepreneur and pharmacist Charles E. Hires, Merion, Philadelphia
In Focus

Merion, Meryon and Meryon

AnnMarie Perl

In Focus study by AnnMarie Perl on Meryon 1960–1 by Franz Kline, a Tate Research publication
Charles Meryon, Pont-neuf, Paris 1853
In Focus

A Persistent Passion for the Print

AnnMarie Perl

In Focus study by AnnMarie Perl on Meryon 1960–1 by Franz Kline, a Tate Research publication
Franz Kline, Bethlehem 1959–60
In Focus

Anglophilia and Americana

AnnMarie Perl

In Focus study by AnnMarie Perl on Meryon 1960–1 by Franz Kline, a Tate Research publication
Elliott and Fry, Nijinsky as Petrouchka 1911
In Focus

A Belated ‘Breakthrough’ to Abstraction

AnnMarie Perl

In Focus study by AnnMarie Perl on Meryon 1960–1 by Franz Kline, a Tate Research publication
In Focus

The Painting

AnnMarie Perl

In Focus study by AnnMarie Perl on Meryon 1960–1 by Franz Kline, a Tate Research publication
Photograph taken by Alexander Liberman of a gathering at his home c.1965
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Courtney J. Martin

The British critic Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990) generated a new vocabulary for American art of the 1960s and 1970s. This ...

Niki de Saint Phalle The Bride or Miss Havisham's dream 1965
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Living with Niki: Niki de Saint Phalle I

Harry Mathews

The French-born artist who died in 2002 is perhaps best known for her large, brightly coloured sculptures of female figures ...

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