About Franz Kline
Franz Kline 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. Although he explored the same innovations to painting as the other artists in this group, Kline's work is distinct in itself and has been revered since the 1950s. Kline's first one-man show took place between October 16 and November 4, 1950, at New York's Charles Egan Gallery, and consisted of eleven abstract paintings. Kline was also known for avoiding giving meaning to his paintings, unlike his colleagues who would give mystical descriptions of their works. He carefully rendered many of his most complex pictures from extensive studies, commonly created on refuse telephone book pages.
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