Willem de Kooning
Painting, Visual Artist
1904 – 1997
Who was Willem de Kooning?
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
In the post-World War II era, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as Abstract expressionism or Action painting, and was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the New York School. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, and Clyfford Still.
In September 2011 de Kooning's work was honored with a large-scale retrospective exhibition: de Kooning: A Retrospective September 18, 2011 – January 9, 2012 at MoMA in New York City. Organized by John Elderfield it was the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full breadth and depth of de Kooning's career, containing nearly 200 works.
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- Born
- Apr 24, 1904
Rotterdam - Parents
- Spouses
- Elaine de Kooning
(1943/12/09 - )
- Elaine de Kooning
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Netherlands
- Profession
- Employment
- Black Mountain College
- Lived in
- Rotterdam
- New York City
- Died
- Mar 19, 1997
Long Island
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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