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ID: 500000974 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000974			Record Type: Person

Kooning, Willem de (American painter and sculptor, 1904-1997)

Note: De Kooning was born in the Netherlands, but active primarily in the United States. He was a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism. His style strongly influenced art after World War II. De Kooning attended the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques and was drawn to Cubism. He moved to the United States in 1926 and worked as a house painter. He was influenced by many avant-garde artists at this time and began to experiment with different painting techniques and processes. He became close friends with Arshile Gorky, whose death in 1948 deeply affected him. He turned to dark and violent paintings, which evolved into an obsession with the human figure. In 1952, de Kooning created the Women series, paintings of the female body in abstract and loosely rendered form.

Names:
	De Kooning, Willem (preferred,V,index,LC)
	Willem de Kooning (V,display)
	Kooning, Willem de (V,English-P,NA,U)
	Kooning, Willem de (Dutch-P,NA)
	de Kooning, Willem (V)
	Kooning, Willem De (V)
	Willem De Kooning (V)
	Dekooning, Willem (V)
	Willem Dekooning (V)
	DeKooning, Willem (U)
	Willem DeKooning (U)
	קוניג, וילם דה (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
	Kooning, William de (U)
	de kooning, willem (LU,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)
	Dutch

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	printmaker
	lithographer
	sculptor
	owner
	painter (tradesperson)
	teacher

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Rotterdam (South Holland, Netherlands) (inhabited place) Died: East Hampton (Suffolk county, New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:

active:

New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

associate of ....	Hartigan, Grace
......................	(American painter, 1922-2008) [500027518]

colleague of ....	Abbott, Mary
......................	(American painter, 1921-2019) [500487312]

colleague of ....	Sanders, Joop
......................	(Dutch-American painter, 1921-2023) [500466210]

friend of ....	Gorky, Arshile
................	(American painter, ca. 1904-1948) [500021392]

spouse of ....	De Kooning, Elaine
................	(American sculptor, painter, and writer, 1918-1989) [500001599]

student of ....	Gidding, Jaap
..................	(Dutch textile designer, ceramicist, and painter, 1887-1955) [500045669]

teacher at (person to institution) ....	Black Mountain College
............................................................	(American liberal arts college, active 1933-1957) [500125890]

teacher of ....	Passlof, Pat
..................	(American painter, 1928-2011) [500095431]

teacher of ....	Rankine, V. V.
..................	(American sculptor and painter, born 1924) [500022750]

worked with ....	Hollander, Irwin
....................	(American printmaker, 1927-2018) [500016502]

List/Hierarchical Position:

....

Persons, Artists

........

Kooning, Willem de (I)

Biographies:

(American painter and sculptor, 1904-1997) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(Dutch painter, 1904-1997) ..... [RKD]
(Dutch painter, 1904-1997) ..... [IMJ]
(American artist, born the Netherlands. 1904-1997) ..... [MoMA]
(American owner, 1904-1997) ..... [PROV]
(American artist, 1904-1997) ..... [PROV]
(American artist) ..... [PROV]
(Unknown artist) ..... [GRISC]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American painter, b.1904) ..... [BHA]
(artist, 1904-1997) ..... [GRL]
(American painter) ..... [AVERY]
(American painter, 1904-1997) ..... [AVERY]
(sculptor, born 1904) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(American artist, 1904-1997) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American artist, b.1904) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1904-) ..... [WCP]
(American painter, b.1904) ..... [GRLPA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

קוניג, וילם דה ........	[IMJ]
..........................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

De Kooning, Willem ........	[AVERY Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, RKD, VP Preferred]
.....................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
.....................................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 890164
.....................................	Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 29 April 2004
.....................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
.....................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83149905
.....................................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) accessed 29 April 2004
.....................................	M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
.....................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 45760
.....................................	Witt Library, Authority files
.....................................	Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000) 190

de Kooning, Willem ........	[BHA Preferred, MoMA Preferred, VP]
....................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
....................................	Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 29 April 2004
....................................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)

Dekooning, Willem ........	[PROV Preferred]
....................................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

de kooning, willem ........	[PROV]
..................................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

DeKooning, Willem ........	[PROV, RKD]
.....................................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
.....................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 45760

Kooning, Willem de ........	[AVERY, BHA, GRL, GRLPA Preferred, IMJ Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred]
....................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
....................................	Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
....................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 83149905
....................................	Muller, Dutch Art (1997) 93
....................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 45760
....................................	Washington Post (19 March 1997)

Kooning, Willem De ........	[WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.....................................	Witt Library, Authority files

Kooning, William de ........	[RKD]
......................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 45760

Willem de Kooning ........	[MoMA, VP]
..................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................................	Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 29 April 2004

Willem De Kooning ........	[CL-Courtauld, GRISC, VP, WL-Courtauld]
...................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
...................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

Willem Dekooning ........	[PROV, VP]
..................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Willem DeKooning ........	[PROV, VP]
...................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Bruce and Wells, Art and Context, the '50s and '60s (2006) 66
	..........	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) Accessed 07/10/2002.
	..........	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
	..........	ULAN 500000974

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