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Friedel Dzubas Art

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)
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Artist: Friedel Dzubas
"Floating Spring #2" Friedel Dzubas, Color Field, Yellow, Abstract Painting
"Floating Spring #2" Friedel Dzubas, Color Field, Yellow, Abstract Painting

"Floating Spring #2" Friedel Dzubas, Color Field, Yellow, Abstract Painting

By Friedel Dzubas

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Friedel Dzubas Floating Spring #2, 1968 Magna on canvas 20 x 55 inches Provenance The artist Estate of the artist Exhibited New York, Lincoln Glenn Gallery, A Tribute to André: Art...

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"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Color Field, Abstract, Light Blue, Green, Pink
"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Color Field, Abstract, Light Blue, Green, Pink

"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Color Field, Abstract, Light Blue, Green, Pink

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1990s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art

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Friedel Dzubas - Signed #42/100 Emmerich gallery exhibition screenprint 1966-7
Friedel Dzubas - Signed #42/100 Emmerich gallery exhibition screenprint 1966-7

Friedel Dzubas - Signed #42/100 Emmerich gallery exhibition screenprint 1966-7

By Friedel Dzubas

Located in New York, NY

Friedel Dzubas at Andre Emmerich, 1967 Color silkscreen on wovepaper Pencil signed and numbered 42/100 on the front. Date printed on lithograph Rarely seen, this historic pencil sign...

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1960s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art

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Screen

Large Abstract Monotype by Friedel Dzubas
Large Abstract Monotype by Friedel Dzubas

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A large, pastel colored monotype print on cast paper pulp by American Abstract artist, Friedel Dzubas. It is signed and dated lower right. Friedel Dzubas, German/American (1915–1994...

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Afterthought
Afterthought

Afterthought

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Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994) was a Berlin-born, American abstract painter and a key artist associated with both the New York School and the Color Field movement. Dzubas studied art i...

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Untitled (GT/FD 1982 W4) aka "Tondo"
Untitled (GT/FD 1982 W4) aka "Tondo"

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Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994) was a Berlin-born, American abstract painter and a key artist associated with both the New York School and the Color Field movement. Dzubas studied art in Germany before fleeing the Nazi regime in 1939, settling in New York City. During the 1940s, Dzubas circulated with some of the leading abstract painters in the city's vital art scene. One of Dzubas' first major exhibitions took place at the 9th Street Art...

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Untitled (Cosmic Egg)
Untitled (Cosmic Egg)

Untitled (Cosmic Egg)

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Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994) was a Berlin-born American abstract painter. He was emphatically associated with both the New York School and the Color Field movement. Dzubas studied ar...

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Black Tondo
Black Tondo

Black Tondo

By Friedel Dzubas

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ABC
ABC

ABC

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Located in Toronto, Ontario

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Night Star

Night Star

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Signed, numbered, and titled in pencil Screenprint 32.37 x 19.12 inches Edition of 25 of 90

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Untitled (Islands)
Untitled (Islands)

Untitled (Islands)

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Located in Toronto, Ontario

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Night Star
Night Star

Night Star

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Untitled Sketch II
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art

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