Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator (died 1997)

Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist (1904–1997)

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.