List of Famous people with last name Kooning

Elaine de Kooning

Elaine Marie Fried

First Name Elaine

Died on February 1, 1989 (aged 19)

Born in United States of America, New York, New York City

Elaine Marie Catherine de Kooning was an Abstract Expressionist and Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. She wrote extensively on the art of the period and was an editorial associate for Art News magazine.

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Willem de Kooning

First Name Willem

Last Name Kooning

Born on April 24, 1904

Died on March 19, 1997 (aged 92)

Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, South Holland

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.

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