Franz Kline 

Franz Jozef Kline
Born: May 23, 1910; Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: May 13, 1962; New York City, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Art Movement: Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Art
Painting School: New York School
Genre: abstract
Field: painting
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Franz Kline is an American Abstract Expressionist known for his singular monochrome paintings. His use of large black strokes that cut through white canvases in calculated compositions set him apart from other artists of Abstract Expressionism. Kline sketches his paintings in advance rather than going through the spontaneous method of tagging his peers. Born May 23, 1910 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Kline studied painting at Boston University and illustration at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London during the 1930s. When moving to New York, he moved to befriends Willem de Kooning who introduces him to abstraction. Kline's gestural pieces, such as Nijinsky (1950) and Mahoning (1956), are characterized by thick layers of black and white pigment and aggressive energetic lines. Kline died on May 13, 1962 in New York City of a heart attack at the age of 51, then at the height of his popularity