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Birth Name: Franz Kline
Born: 23 May 1910 Died: 13 May 1962
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Franz Kline was an American Abstract Expressionist known for his distinctive monochromatic paintings. Employing black brushstrokes on white canvases, Kline created calculated compositions distinct from other artists of his generation. โThe final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotion come across?โ the artist once said. Born on May 23, 1910 in Wilkes-Barre, PA, Kline studied painting at Boston University and illustration at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London during the 1930s. After moving to New York in 1938, he befriended Willem de Kooning, who introduced him to abstraction. Klin
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