Willem DeKooning
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De Kooning in his studio in 1961
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| Born |
April 24, 1904 Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | March 19, 1997 (aged 92) East Hampton, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | Dutch, American |
| Known for | Abstract expressionism |
| Notable work | Woman I, Easter Monday, Attic, Excavation |
| Awards |
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964) National Medal of Arts (1986) Praemium Imperiale (1989) |
Willem de Kooning (/ˈwɪləm də ˈkuːnɪŋ/;Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm də ˈkoːnɪŋ]; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. He moved to the United States in 1926, and became an American citizen in 1962. On December 9, 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, Adolph Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, and Richard Pousette-Dart.
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