![]() While Kline’s tragically premature death from a rheumatic heart condition in 1962 left the direction of his artistic vision uncertain, he remains an acknowledged master of abstract expressionism. Produced by: Maria Gracia Turgeon, Habib Attia. His work is part of significant public and private collections in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. He studied painting in the Art Department, Boston University, 1931-5 and at Heatherleys. In 1958 he was included in The Museum of Modern Art’s major exhibition, ‘ The New American Painting,’ which toured eight European cities. Kline was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. From 1958 he introduced strong colours into some of his works.ĭuring the 1950s Kline taught at a number of institutions including Black Mountain College in North Carolina and The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. ![]() Kline's first one-man exhibition at the Egan Gallery, New York, in 1950 quickly led to his recognition as one of the leading Abstract Expressionists. Franz Kline ( Wilkes-Barre, Pensilvânia, 23 de maio de 1910 Nova Iorque, 13 de maio de 1962 ), foi um pintor americano do movimento artístico designado por expressionismo abstrato, que se centrava geograficamente em Nova Iorque e temporariamente nos anos 1940 e 1950. His signature style began in 1950 with vigorous large-scale calligraphic abstract paintings in black and white. Some of his works from c.1946 began to show an abstract or Cubist structure. By the late forties and early fifties, de Kooning and his New York contemporaries, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Adolph. ![]() His early work focused on views of New York in the tradition of Sloan and Glackens, and seated figures.
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