John Berggruen Gallery
Willem de Kooning
Biography
1904 Born Rotterdam, Holland1916 Enrolled, Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts & Letters Rotterdam, Holland
1926 Immigrated to the United States
1934 Joined the Artist's Union
1935 Joined mural division, W.P.A. Federal Art Project
1962 Became United States Citizen
1964 Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom From Lyndon B. Johnson, Washington, DC
1975 Awarded Gold Medal American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1982 Elected member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany
1985 Awarded National Medal of Arts From U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Washington, DC
1997 Died
Solo Exhibitions
1994 Celebrating Willem de Kooning: Selected Paintings and Sculpture. Guild
Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York. 25 June-31 July. Catalogue with essay by Klaus Kertess.
Willem de Kooning, A Summer Exhibition: Selected Works 1950’s-1980’s. C & M Arts, New York. 7 June-12 August.
Willem de Kooning: Paintings. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 8 May-5 September. Traveled to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 6 October 1994-8 January 1995; and Tate Gallery, London 15 February-7 May 1995. Catalogue by Marla Prather, with essays by David Sylvester.
1993 De Kooning: Works on Paper. Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York. 23 October – 31 December.
Willem de Kooning: From the Hirshhorn Museum Collection. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 21 October 1993-9 January 1994. Traveled to Fundacio “la Caixa,” Barcelona, 17 February-3 April 1994; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 13 September-27 November; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 19 March-28 May 1995. Catalogue by Judith Zilczer with essays by Lynne Cooke, Susan Lake, and Judith Zilczer. Catalan/ Castilian edition of catalogue published under title Willem de Kooning col-leccio Hirshhorn Museum.
Willem de Kooning, Jean Dean DeBuffet: The Late Works. Pace Gallery
1991 Willem de Kooning: Important Paintings and Works on Paper. Salander O’Reiley Galleries, Beverly Hills. 8 January-9 February.
1990 A Few Remarkable Paintings by Picasso and de Kooning. Heiner and Bastian Fine Art, Berlin. Catalogue.
Willem de Kooning: An Exhibition of Paintings. Salander-O’Reiley Galleries, New York. 4 September- 14 October. Catalogue with essays by Klaus Kertess and Robert Rosenblum.
Willem de Kooning: Works on Paper, 1954-1984. Organized by Contempo Modern Art Gallery, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Traveled to European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht, the Netherlands, 10-18 March; and Tokyo Art Expo, 29 March-2 April. Catalogue.
Willem de Kooning. Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne. 8-28 February. Traveled to Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, 8 March-18 April. Catalogue.
1987 Willem de Kooning: The New Paintings. Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago. 1 May-20 June.
Willem de Kooning: Paintings 1982-1986. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles. 17 January-21 February.
1986 Willem de Kooning: Recent Paintings, 1983-1986. Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London. 21 November 1986-14 January 1987. Catalogue with essay by Robert Rosenblum.
1985 Willem de Kooning: New Paintings, 1984-1985. Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York. 17 October –16 November. Catalogue.
De Kooning Dipinti, Desegni, Sculture. Studio Marconi, Milan. 21 March-April. Catalogue.
1984 Willem de Kooning: Paintings and Sculpture, 1971-1983. Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London. 21 November 1984-11 January 1985. Catalogue.
Willem de Kooning: Peintures et sculptures recentes. Galerie Daniel Tempelton, Paris, 14 June –21 July. Exhibition organized jointly with Galerie Hans Stretlow, Dusseldorf, and presented there under the title Willem de Kooning: Bilder, Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, 13 September-20 October.
Max-Beckmann-Preis 1984 der Stadt Frankfurt am Main: Willem de Kooning. Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kundtinstitut, Frankfurt am Main. 16 May-16 June. Catalogue.
Willem de Kooning: New Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings. Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. 12 May-23 June. Catalogue.
Willem de Kooning Recent Works. Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. 6-30 March. Catalogue.
1983 De Kooning: Selected Works. Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York . 16 December-27 January 1984.
The Drawings of Willem de Kooning and Willem de Kooning Retrospective Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Drawings: 7 December 1983-19 February 1984. Retrospective: 15 December1983-26 February 1984. Traveled to Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, 11 March-29 April 1984; and Musee national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 26 June-24 September 1984. Catalogue Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture with essays by Pauk Cummings, Jorn Merkery, and Claire Stoullig. German and French editions of catalogue published.
Willem de Kooning: Skulpturen. Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne. 9 September-30 October. Catalogue with essay by Siegfried Gohr.
Willem de Kooning: Het Noordatlantisch licht / The North Atlantic Light, 1960-1983. Streljik Museum, Amsterdam. 10 May-3 July. Traveled to Louisiana Museum, Humleback Denmark, 16 July-4 September; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 17 September-30 October. Catalogue with essays by Edy de Wilde and Carter Ratcliff.
1982 Willem de Kooning: New Paintings, 1981-1982. Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. 17 March-1 May.
Exhibition on the occasion of the visit of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands to New York, Vista International Hotel, World Trade Center, New York. 24 April.
1981 Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981. Guild Hall Museum, East
Hampton, New York. 23 May-19 July. Catalogue with essay by Judith Wolfe and photographs of the artist by Hans Namuth.
1976-77 Willem de Kooning: Painting and Sculpture organized by the Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC (exhibition opened in Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
1953 Retrospective School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
1950 Venice Biennale Venice, Italy
1948 De Kooning Egan Gallery New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
1995 Texas Collects: Willem de Kooning and is Contemporaries. Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston. 17 March-21 May.
Myth and Nature in American Painting. Tate Gallery, London. January-
May.
Into a New Museum: Recent Gifts and Other Acquisitions of Contemporary
Art, Part I. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 18 January-18 June.
1994 Painting, Drawing and Sculpture. Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London. 2 March-8 April.
1993 Het Materiaal/ The Material. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 5 May-29 August.
1992 Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, Willem de Kooning: Works Loaned by the Artists in Honor of Neil and Angelica Rudensteine. Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 18 January-9 August.
1991 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 1991. Royal Academy of Arts, London. Summer. Catalogue.
1990 Hommage aan Vincent van Gogh: Twintig Posters/ Homage to Vincent van Gogh Twenty Posters. Stichting Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam.
Baltimore Collects: Painting and Sculpture Since 1960. Baltimore Museum of Art. 27 May-22 July.
1989 Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions. Whitney Museum of American Art, July-October. Catalogue.
1988 Vital Signs: Organic Abstraction of the Permanent Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 28 April- 17 July.
1987 L’Epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion: Aspests de l’art d’aujourd’hui, 1977-1987. Musee national d’art moderne, Cetre Georges Pompidou, Paris
21 May-17 August. Catalogue.
1986 Major Acquisitions Since 1980: Selected Painting and Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 18 September –30 November. Accompanied by the publication Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions 1973-1986.
1985 Eight Modern Masters. Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas. 20 April-23 June. Catalogue.
1984 Drawings Since 1974. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 14 March-13 May.
1983 In Honor of de Kooning. Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, 12 July-16 September.
1982 Five Distinguished Alumni, The W.P.A. Federal Art Project: An Exhibition Honoring the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Centennial. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 21 January-22 February. Catalogue.
1976-77 Paris-New York Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France
1958 The New American Painting Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
1948 Annual Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1944 Abstract and Surrealist Art in America Mortimer Brandt Gallery New York, NY
1942 American and French Painting McMillen Inc. New York, NY
1936 New Horizons in American Art Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
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