Biografie von Frank KLEINHOLZ (1901-1987)

Birth place: Brooklyn, NY

Addresses: NYC; Perrine, FL

Profession: Painter, writer, teacher, lecturer

Studied: Fordham Univ. (LL.B., 1923); Am. Art Sch.; Colby College (hon. D.F.A.); Alexander Dobkin; Yasuo Kuniyoshi; Sol Wilson.

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1942-62 (9 times); VMFA, 1942, 1944; WMAA, 1943, 1945; AIC, 1943; Pepsi-Cola, 1944; Univ. Nebraska, 1944; State Univ. Iowa, 1944-46; Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1945-53 (3 times); Albright Art Gal., 1946; CAM, 1945; Springfield Mus. Art, 1945; MMA (AV), 1942 (prize), 1950 (Am. Painting Today); PMG, 1943 (solo); Whyte Gal., 1944 (solo); Assn. Am. Artists, 1942 (first solo), 1944, 1945 (solo); An Am. Group 1944-45; BM, 1944; Art Lg. Am., 1944, 1945; Directions in Am. Painting, Carnegie Inst., Pittsburgh, PA, 1941, 1943-46; Manhasset AA, 1953( first prize for Bright Lights); ACA Gal., NYC & Rome, 1965 (solo); YMHA, Miami, FL, 1972 ( first prize for prints for sunflower).

Member: An Am. Group; Art Lg. Am.

Work: MMA; PMG; Encyclopaedia Britannica Coll.; Brooklyn Mus; Marquette Univ, Milwaukee; MoMA-Tel-Aviv, Israel; Fine Arts Mus, Moscow, Russia. Commissions: outdoor mural, Blankman Found, Sands Point, NY, 1958.

Comments: Preferred media: oils. Auth.: Frank Kleinholz, a Self Portrait, Shorewood Press, 1964; "Abstract Art is Dead,." Am. Dialog, 7/1964; Ile de Brehan óThe Flowering Rock, Univ. Miami Press, 1971.

Sources: WW73; Edwin Alden Jewell, "Frank Kleinholz Holds Art Show," New York Times, 1942; Donald Bear, "Contemporary American Painting," Encyclopedia Britannica (1946); August L. Freundlich, Frank Kleinholz, the Outsider, Univ. Miami Press (1969); Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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