Willem de Kooning. Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist.
Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a US citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.
In the years after World War II, 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, John Ferren, Nell Blaine, Adolph Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, and Richard Pousette-Dart.
De Kooning's retrospective held at MoMA in 2011-2012 made him one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. Plaque affixed on de Kooning's house of birth in Rotterdam, Netherlands Willem de Kooning was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on April 24, 1904.
His parents, Leendert de Kooning and Cornelia Nobel, were divorced in 1907, and de Kooning lived first with his father and then with his mother. He left school in 1916 and became an apprentice in a firm of commercial artists. Until 1924 he attended evening classes in Rotterdam at the, now the Willem de Kooning Academie.In 1926, de Kooning traveled to the United States as a stowaway on the Shelley, a British freighter bound
Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a US citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.
In the years after World War II, 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, John Ferren, Nell Blaine, Adolph Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, and Richard Pousette-Dart.
De Kooning's retrospective held at MoMA in 2011-2012 made him one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. Plaque affixed on de Kooning's house of birth in Rotterdam, Netherlands Willem de Kooning was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on April 24, 1904.
His parents, Leendert de Kooning and Cornelia Nobel, were divorced in 1907, and de Kooning lived first with his father and then with his mother. He left school in 1916 and became an apprentice in a firm of commercial artists. Until 1924 he attended evening classes in Rotterdam at the, now the Willem de Kooning Academie.In 1926, de Kooning traveled to the United States as a stowaway on the Shelley, a British freighter bound
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