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Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning in his studio.jpg
De Kooning in his studio in 1961
Born (1904-04-24)April 24, 1904
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Died March 19, 1997(1997-03-19) (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 ˈknɪŋ/;Dutch: [ˈʋɪləm də ˈkoːnɪŋ]; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and moved to New York in 1927.

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, Clyfford Still, and Richard Pousette-Dart.


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