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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 520,978 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Franz Kline is the 1,034th most popular painter (up from 1,046th in 2019), the 3,593rd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,737th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Painter.

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  • 23

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Franz Kline ranks 1,034 out of 1,421. Before him are Caesar van Everdingen, Francesco Furini, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, Pedro Américo, Joaquín Torres-García, and Perino del Vaga. After him are Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Maso di Banco, Philip de László, Huang Tingjian, Benedetto Luti, and Aleksandr Deyneka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Franz Kline ranks 136. Before him are Josef Klaus, Rachel Kempson, Giulietta Simionato, Josef Tal, Sylvia Sidney, and Trygve Bratteli. After him are Yekaterina Furtseva, T-Bone Walker, Kelly Johnson, Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Aleksandar Tirnanić, and Armen Takhtajan. Among people deceased in 1962, Franz Kline ranks 89. Before him are Erik Scavenius, Diego Martínez Barrio, Francisco Bru, Indalecio Prieto, Pierre Benoit, and Dhondo Keshav Karve. After him are Charles Galton Darwin, György Orth, Edmond Privat, Donald Lippincott, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, and José Giral.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Franz Kline ranks 3,593 out of 18,182. Before him are Sylvia Miles (1924), Lydia Clarke (1923), Michael K. Williams (1966), Robert Stack (1919), Barry Bostwick (1945), and Doris Miller (1919). After him are Timothy Hutton (1960), Maso di Banco (1250), Philip Kaufman (1936), Vernor Vinge (1944), Mariska Hargitay (1964), and Big Mama Thornton (1926).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Franz Kline ranks 44. Before him are Lawrence Weiner (1942), Evel Knievel (1938), John Frederick Kensett (1816), Sam Francis (1923), Beatrice Wood (1893), and Ellsworth Kelly (1923). After him are Maso di Banco (1250), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Benjamin West (1738), James Turrell (1943), Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847), and Ad Reinhardt (1913).

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