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Biography 
23.5.1910
Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA (US)
Kline´s facility for drawing in ink is well-known, exemplified by his precocious skill as the school cartoonist at Lehighton High School in Pennsylvania.
Later, while studying in London at Heatherly¹s School of Fine Art, prior to World War II, Kline was definitively inspired by the drawing techniques of Rembrandt and of Charles Keene, an English caricaturist of the 19th Century. Both artists used pen and ink with great rapidity and an economy of line easily recognized in Kline´s mature drawing. He also acknowledged a youthful admiration for Hokusai which led to a lifelong interest in the concept of oriental space.
In 1943, Kline met the painter Conrad Marca-Relli, his next door neighbor on West 4th Street, who introduced him to Willem de Kooning. Thus began a sequence of influential friendships cemented by studio visits and lively companionship in the Cedar Bar. Feverish discussions on art at the 8th Street Club were strongly influenced by a growing curiosity in Zen philosophy, which affected many of the New York artists. Kline´s profound interest in music and ballet supported his intuitive understanding of abstract form, and by 1949 the realistic subject matter of his formative years had been transformed into abstraction. Pen and pencil were replaced by the brush which emphasized the rich expressive potential of his line, while the increasingly calligraphic minimalism of his compositions created a sense of scale which begged to be enlarged. In this way many celebrated works of the Fifties were painted from drawings, done in brush and ink on paper or telephone book paper.
13.5.1962
Died in New York City, NY (US)
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Public exhibitions 71
until 14.9.
Taste of Modern
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC 
until 3.8.
The Shape of Time
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Solo shows 5
2008
Franz Kline
L&M Arts, New York City, NY
2004
Franz Kline 1910-1962
Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
2003
FRANZ KLINE: Paintings from a Private American Collection
Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
Franz Kline
L&M Arts, New York City, NY
2002
Franz Kline - Ink Drawings
McKee Gallery, New York City, NY
Group shows 64
2008
Action Painting
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Work by Abstract Expressionists
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
2007
Drawings
McKee Gallery, New York City, NY
Drawings, Watercolors and Gouaches: From Toulouse-Lautrec to Freud
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Museu da Solidariedade
Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba
When Art Worlds Collide - The 60s
Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY
Modern(ist) Love - The Dorothy Lincoln-Smith and Harvey K. Smith Collection
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
Speed #1 - natura naturata - velocidad sin movimiento
IVAM - Institut Valencià dArt Modern, Valencia
Speed 2
IVAM - Institut Valencià dArt Modern, Valencia
2006
Afro & incotri e Confronti italia America
Gallerie d´Arte Moderna di Udine GAMUD, Udine
Shelter - Kunst für zwangsprostituierte Frauen
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Black, Black & White, White
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York City, NY
Coming of Age - American Art, 1850s to 1950s
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Plane/Figure - Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Modern and Contemporary Masters
Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
New York School
American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
Starting at Zero - Black Mountain College 1933-57
Kettles Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
Line and Surface - Works on Paper
Peter Blum Gallery, New York City, NY
Contemporary and Modern Paintings
Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
2005
Ecole de New York - Expressionnisme Abstrait - oeuvres sur papier
Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice
“Vedo Blu”
Galleria Edieuropa, Rome
Expresionismo Abstracto - Obra sobre papel
Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
American and European Selections
Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
Looking at Words
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
Obras Maestras del Siglo XX en las Colecciones del IVAM
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia
Into The Unknown - Abstraction From The Collection
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Surfing the Century: Twentieth-Century Art
UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts
Gagosian Gallery - Britannia Street, London (England)
2004
From Pollock to Marden:Post-War Works on Paper from the Collection of Susan and
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Portraits
Esso Gallery and Books, New York City, NY
A Spirited Vision: Highlights of the Bequest of Caroline Wiess Law
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Picasso to Thiebaud
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2003
Staff Selections - Permanent Collection
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Black White
Danese, New York City, NY
Aaron Siskind and others
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia
The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings & Sculp
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
A Way with Words
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Masterworks on Paper from the Edward R. Broida Collection
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Not Exactly Photographs
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Abstract Expressionism - Art Movement in the 20th Century
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Conversations - A Collection in Dialogue
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2002
Black Mountain College: Una aventura americana
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
An American Legacy, A Gift to New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
All American, Part II
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY
The New York School: Abstract Expressionism and Beyond
UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
The Physical World - An Exhibition Of Painting And Sculpture
Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY
2001
All American
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY
Cold War Modern: The Domesticated Avant–garde
Davis Museum and Cultural Center - Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Modernism & Abstraction
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
The Stamp of Impulse - Abstract Expressionist Prints
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Foundations - Building the Addisons Collection
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2000
American Abstract Expressionism
American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
Modernism & Abstraction - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Expresionismo Abstracto
Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Highlights of Late 20th-Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1999
Panza - The Legacy of a Collector
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Drawn from Artists Collections
The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
Fruits & Flowers, Skies & Pies
Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, NY
1998
Masterworks on Paper from the Collection of George Hopper Fitch
The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
The New York School
Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY
Dealer Directory 12
USA
Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
Jason McCoy Gallery, New York City, NY
L&M Arts, New York City, NY
Elrick-Manley Fine Art, New York City, NY
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
Edward Tyler Nahem, New York City, NY
Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY
Pascal de Sarthe Fine Art, Paradise Valley, AZ
Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Public collections 36
Argentina
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Germany
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - am Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf
Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Iran
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Portugal
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
United Kingdom
Tate Britain, London (England)
Tate Modern, London (England)
USA
Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection, Davis, CA
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Museum of the City of New York, New York City, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
UAMA - The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Catalogs
• Yearbook 2000/2001
Auction results
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