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Willem de Kooning

1904 - 1997

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Willem de Kooning ( də KOO-ning, Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm də ˈkoːnɪŋ]; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a US citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried. In the years after World War II, De Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as abstract expressionism or "action painting", and was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the New York School. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Willem de Kooning is the 333rd most popular painter (down from 285th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 118th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Dutch Painter.

Willem de Kooning is most famous for his abstract expressionist paintings.

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Among painters, Willem de Kooning ranks 333 out of 2,023. Before him are Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Niccolò dell'Abbate, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Félicien Rops, Thomas Couture, and Léon Bakst. After him are Louis Wain, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Adriaen Brouwer, Aelbert Cuyp, Carlo Crivelli, and Adriaen van Ostade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Willem de Kooning ranks 42. Before him are Luis Carrero Blanco, Antonín Novotný, Lucile Randon, Gregory Bateson, Nikolai Ostrovsky, and George F. Kennan. After him are Joseph Campbell, John Gielgud, George Balanchine, Charles J. Pedersen, Karl Rahner, and Tadao Takayama. Among people deceased in 1997, Willem de Kooning ranks 45. Before him are Chien-Shiung Wu, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Dodi Fayed, Zoltán Czibor, Otto Ernst Remer, and Colonel Tom Parker. After him are Teiichi Matsumaru, Cornelius Castoriadis, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Carl Gustav Hempel, Burgess Meredith, and Stéphane Grappelli.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem de Kooning ranks 129 out of 1,646. Before him are Colonel Tom Parker (1909), Marinus van der Lubbe (1909), Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510), Arie Haan (1948), Bernard Haitink (1929), and Gerard 't Hooft (1946). After him are Aelbert Cuyp (1620), Tjalling Koopmans (1910), Pier Gerlofs Donia (1480), Bertha of Holland (1055), Ruud Krol (1949), and Edwin van der Sar (1970).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Willem de Kooning ranks 29. Before him are Gerrit Dou (1613), Pieter Aertsen (1508), Lucas van Leyden (1494), Willem Claesz. Heda (1594), Gerard David (1450), and Anton Mauve (1838). After him are Aelbert Cuyp (1620), Adriaen van Ostade (1610), Gabriël Metsu (1629), Ferdinand Bol (1616), Karel Appel (1921), and Paulus Potter (1625).

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