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Franz Kline

1910 - 1962

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Kline is the 1,145th most popular painter (down from 1,028th in 2019), the 4,339th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,331st in 2019) and the 49th most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Franz Kline ranks 1,145 out of 2,023. Before him are Martin van Meytens, Jenny Nyström, Ugolino di Nerio, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, Zdeněk Burian, and Bartolomeo Carducci. After him are Willem Drost, Kanō Motonobu, Vincenzo Foppa, Massimo Stanzione, Fritz Bleyl, and Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Franz Kline ranks 154. Before him are Wolfgang Preiss, Yekaterina Furtseva, Karl Kling, Josef Klaus, Roy J. Plunkett, and Claire Trevor. After him are Barbara O'Neil, Barbara Castle, Helmut Kunz, Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, and José Lezama Lima. Among people deceased in 1962, Franz Kline ranks 97. Before him are Francisco Bru, Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Mouloud Feraoun, Eugene Aynsley Goossens, and Franz Konwitschny. After him are José Giral, Max Vasmer, Karl Rapp, György Orth, Charles Galton Darwin, and Luigi Carnera.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Franz Kline ranks 4,339 out of 20,380. Before him are Orson Bean (1928), James Flynn (1934), Warren Oates (1928), Ira Gershwin (1896), Dakota Johnson (1989), and Baby Face Nelson (1908). After him are Kevin Sorbo (1958), Kenny G (1956), Jennifer Lee (1971), Mark Granovetter (1943), Thom Mayne (1944), and Lara Flynn Boyle (1970).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Franz Kline ranks 49. Before him are Cy Twombly (1928), Gutzon Borglum (1867), Allan Kaprow (1927), Benjamin West (1738), Frederic Edwin Church (1826), and Carl Andre (1935). After him are N. C. Wyeth (1882), Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844), John Singleton Copley (1738), Lilla Cabot Perry (1848), Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), and Joseph Cornell (1903).

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