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Birth
1904 (Rotterdam, Holland)
Death
1997 (East Hampton, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
Self portrait
© 2007 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Often Known For
abstract expressionist painting, figurative
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Categories of Interest
Abstract Expressionism
Painters of Nudes
Modernism
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Willem de Kooning was born in Rotterdam, Holland on April 24, 1904. His father, Leenert, was a wine and beer distributor who won custody of young Willem when his parents separated about five years after his birth. His mother, Cornelia Nobel de Kooning, ran a tough seamen's bar, and snatched the boy back soon after. At the age of twelve, with elementary school behind him, de Kooning entered an informal apprenticeship with commercial artists and designers, Jan and (showing 500 of 11869 characters). |
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