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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Kline has received more than 549,392 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Franz Kline is the 1,028th most popular painter (up from 1,033rd in 2019), the 3,331st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,583rd in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Franz Kline ranks 1,028 out of 2,023. Before him are Eero Järnefelt, Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Christoph Amberger, Antoine Pesne, Ludwig Richter, and Winslow Homer. After him are Jean-Louis Forain, Li Cheng, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Laurent de La Hyre, Adriaen van der Werff, and George Frederic Watts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Franz Kline ranks 132. Before him are Richard Conte, Helene Mayer, Artie Shaw, Alex North, Barbara O'Neil, and Aleksandar Tirnanić. After him are Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Scatman Crothers, Rachel Kempson, Josef Klaus, Josef Tal, and Gerhard Schröder. Among people deceased in 1962, Franz Kline ranks 88. Before him are Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Diego Martínez Barrio, Ahmad bin Yahya, Max Fabiani, György Orth, and Francisco Bru. After him are Indalecio Prieto, Paavo Aaltonen, Pierre Benoit, Ricardo Rodríguez, Max Vasmer, and José Giral.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Franz Kline ranks 3,331 out of 20,380. Before him are William Conrad (1920), Robert Gould Shaw (1837), Doris Miller (1919), Neil Simon (1927), Orson Scott Card (1951), and Winslow Homer (1836). After him are Linda Nochlin (1931), David Butler (1894), John DeLorean (1925), Frank Welker (1946), Eric Carle (1929), and Fred Willard (1939).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Franz Kline ranks 41. Before him are Allan Kaprow (1927), Will Sampson (1933), James Turrell (1943), Lee Krasner (1908), Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823), and Winslow Homer (1836). After him are Benjamin West (1738), Evel Knievel (1938), Barbara Kruger (1945), Gilbert Stuart (1755), Richard Estes (1932), and Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844).

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