Friedel Dzubas Paintings
German, 1915-1994
Friedel Dzubas was born April 20, 1915 in Berlin and studied at the Prussian Academy of Fine Art and under Paul Klee while in Düsseldorf from 1936 to 1939. In 1939, Dzubas fled Germany for London and the United States where he later became a citizen.
In 1948, he he answered art critic Clement Greenberg's anonymous advertisement for a summer roommate. It was the height of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in New York, and through Greenberg Dzubas met Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman. Later, in the early 1950s, Dzubas shared a studio with Helen Frankenthaler, associating with some of the younger generation of abstract painters in New York including Jules Olitski and Kenneth Noland.
In the early 1950s, he began exhibiting his work in New York. In the 1960s, he started experimenting with color field painting.
Dzubas' mature paintings since the 1960s assimilate his early interest in German Romanticism and Expressionism into post-war American abstraction. "He abandoned oil paint for Magna acrylic in 1965 when he found he could achieve with a brevity of gesture the brilliance and luminosity of oil paint applied in thin veils of color. He could thus effect the richness and variation of traditional glazed tones using a more expressive, immediate process. By the early 1980s, Dzubas abandoned his preliminary preparations of sketching and priming, thereby inviting spontaneity and accident into his painting process. Although he typically coated his canvas with a gesso primer before painting, he began to apply it so thinly that the pigment was almost immediately absorbed into the ground, making it impossible for him to revise and rework his compositions. Dzubas' change in technique reveals a thoroughly modernist sensibility: "I like that risk," he explained. "I think, to a certain degree, I have to make it mechanically difficult and unreliable for myself. If I can predict the effect too much, then I probably am not supposed to be doing it. I function better if my footing is not too sure, so to speak." The rich, velvety hues of Grade's reds, greens, and blues appear radiant in places. Dzubas heightened his color drama -- a drama characterized as quintessentially Baroque by some critics-- by varying the density of his paint. His rectangular forms appear to ebb and flow in an orchestrated movement across the surface of the picture plane." (Megan Bahr)
A retrospective of Dzubas' work was shown at the Museum of Fine Art, Houston in 1974 and at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston the following year. In 1983, Dzubas was honored with an exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (ASKART)(Biography provided by Fine Art San Diego)
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Artist: Friedel Dzubas
Upstream
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Upstream, 1973
acrylic on canvas
40h x 40w in
Category
1970s Post-War Friedel Dzubas Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled Sketch II
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Friedel Dzubas, a prominent figure in the New York School, made a significant mark within the Color Field painting movement during the mid-twentieth century, persisting in his artist...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
untitled, 1974
acrylic on canvas
4h x 18w in
Category
1970s Post-War Friedel Dzubas Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Venus Hill" - Important Color Field Painting red blue green orange purple rose
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
"Venus Hill" is an important, wonderful, vibrant, colorful and energetic Color Field painting by Friedel Dzubas.
The primary colors are red, blue, green, orange, purple and rose.
T...
Category
1980s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Cotton Canvas
Study for "Hot Pursuit"
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
1981
Magna acrylic on canvas mounted on board
5 7/8 x 15 in. (14.9 x 38.1 cm)
Unique
Titled and dated, /81 45" x 116" "HOT PURSUIT" on the reverse
Framed
Category
1980s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
265 + B (Study for "Royal Cool")
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
1976
Magna acrylic on canvas mounted on board
10 x 9 in. (25.4 x 22.9 cm)
Unique
Signed, lower margin; Titled and dated, #265 + B. 72 x 72" "ROYAL COOL" 1976, verso
Framed
Category
1970s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
1974
Acrylic on canvas mounted on board
4 x 18 in.
Titled and dated, verso
Framed
Category
1970s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
1974
Acrylic on canvas mounted on board
6 x 13 in.
Titled and dated, verso
Framed
Category
1970s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
1974
Acrylic on canvas mounted on board
7 x 6 in.
Titled and dated, verso
Framed
Category
1970s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Westerly
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
1973
Acrylic on canvas mounted on board
5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Titled and dated, verso
Framed
Category
1970s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tick Tock
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
1960
Oil on canvas
34 x 50 in. (86.4 x 127 cm)
Signed and dated, verso
Category
1960s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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1980s Post-War Friedel Dzubas Paintings
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Untitled
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1970s Post-War Friedel Dzubas Paintings
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House
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Located in New York, NY
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North Ledge
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