About Frank Kleinholz

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Frank Klienholz
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    "Frank Kleinholz: A 20th Century American Modernist"
    by G. GROSSMAN Phd., Professor at the University of Georgia

    Frank Kleinholz was born in 1901 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a blind father and hard-working mother who supported the family by running a delicatessen. At an early age Kleinholz learned the value of self-reliance and hard work as he aided in the support of his family by selling newspapers and running errands for neighbors and local businesses. This work ethic helped him later in life, and at the age of 23, he was admitted to the New York Bar, having attended Fordham Law School.

    Although Kleinholz practiced insurance law until 1945, he began painting and print-making seriously in the mid 1930's under the tu...

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