3 Quotes & Sayings By Franz Kline

Franz Kline was a teacher, a painter, a writer and a philosopher. He was born in Vienna, Austria. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1917 he emigrated to the United States, where he taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Cornell University from 1921 to 1922 Read more

In the mid-1920s he became interested in the New York School of abstract expressionism. Kline's drawings were promoted by Felix Landau and Carl Holty who arranged a solo exhibition in 1938 in Paris. In 1954 Kline left New York for Italy, where he adopted a nomadic lifestyle and spent the rest of his life moving from one small town to another in Italy.

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The nature of anguish is translated into different forms. Franz Kline
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If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone. Franz Kline