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)(Biography provided by Fine Art San Diego)
to
2
17
21
18
9
9
2
2
Fugue
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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...
Category
1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Screen
Friedel Dzubas Lithograph, Abstract, Blue, Orange, Green, Signed
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas Lithograph, Abstract, Blue, Orange, Green, Signed. Large color lithograph printed on heavy Authenticated brand wove paper and floating inside a period 1970's plexibox....
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Paper
Night Star
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Night Star, 1984
Silkscreen on wove paper with deckled edges
Pencil signed and numbered 24/90 on the front
32 3/10 × 19 1/10 inches
Unframed
Terrific silkscreen by ren...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Screen
Hand signed and numbered Emmerich gallery exhibition poster, 1967
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Friedel Dzubas at Andre Emmerich, 1967
Lithograph on wove paper
Pencil signed and numbered 42/100 on the front. Date printed on lithograph
Rarely if ever seen, this hi...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Offset
Large Abstract Monotype by Friedel Dzubas
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large, pastel colored monotype print on cast paper pulp by American Abstract artist, Friedel Dzubas. It is signed and dated lower right.
Category
1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Monotype
Night Star
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Signed, numbered, and titled in pencil
Screenprint
32.37 x 19.12 inches
Edition of 25 of 90
Category
1980s Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Screen
Friedel Dzubas "Night Star" Screenprint, 1984
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
During the 60’s Dzubas became associated with the Color field painting and Lyrical Abstraction movements. During this period his works were more hard-edged blocks of color. However, he would return his more expressive and improvised manner later in his career.
Dzubas’ technique involved applying thick layers of color over washes, scrubbing the Magna paint he used into the unprimed canvas. He would then use various methods, often including staining and brushing, to apply more color to the canvass.
Many of Friedel Dzubas hang in the permanent collections of some of the most prestigious art institutions in the world; including, the Whitney Museum, NY, the Guggenheim, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Albright-Knox.
“Night Star...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Screen
Collective
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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 group shows was the legendary 9th Street Art...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Monotype
Untitled (GT/FD 1982 W4) aka "Tondo"
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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...
Category
1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Monotype
Friedel Dzubas-Multi (Community Holiday Festival)-ORIGINAL
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Not signed and not numbered. This is an overrun from the signed and numbered edition of 144 that was created by Dzubas to advertise the Comminty Holiday Festival in 1973. 270 poste...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Screen
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 Art
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 Art
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 Art
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 Art
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 Art
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 Art
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 Art
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 Art
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 Art
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 Art
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Related Items
Basquiat Annina Nosei Gallery 1982 (Basquiat anatomy announcement)
By after Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1982:
Rare Basquiat announcement card published by Annina Nosei Gallery to advertise the release of ‘Basquiat Anatomy’ (a suite ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
Untitled (Fresh Air School) /// Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Walasse Ting
By Walasse Ting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Walasse Ting (Chinese-American, 1929-2010)
Title: "Untitled (Fresh Air School)"
Portfolio: Fresh Air School
*Unsigned edition
Year: 1972
Mediu...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Abstract Blue and Green Modernist Lithograph
By Liana D'Urso
Located in Atlanta, GA
Abstract Blue and Green Modernist Lithograph, by Liana D'Urso, circa 1980's. It has been professionally framed in a black lacquered wooden frame u...
Category
Late 20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Paper, Glass
Untitled (SF-348) (Fresh Air School) /// Abstract Expressionist Sam Francis Art
By Sam Francis
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sam Francis (American, 1923-1994)
Title: "Untitled (SF-348) (Fresh Air School)"
Portfolio: Fresh Air School
*Unsigned edition
Year: 1972
Mediu...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Frankenthaler, Mary Mary 1991, New York City, Lincoln Center
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)
Title: Mary Mary (Lincoln Center Honorary)
Year: 1991
Medium: Offset lithograph poster on extra thick Somerset paper
Edition: 2000
Size...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Modern Contemporary Art Signed Limited Edition Abstract Torso Lithograph Print
Located in Studio City, CA
An engaging modern abstract lithographic print that appears to be featuring a human torso/ body - somewhat reminiscent of the abstract works of Henry Moor...
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Wood, Paper
H 27.5 in W 31.5 in D 2 in
Series 2
By Gene Davis
Located in Irvine, CA
This is a bright color screenprint on canvas laid on board by American artist Gene Davis (1920-1985). It is titled "Series 2", measures 30" x 24" and completed in 1969. It is beautif...
Category
1960s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Canvas, Board, Screen
Guiseppe Santomaso (Italian 1907 - 1990) Signed, "Blue Space" Lithograph, 1969.
By Giuseppe Santomaso
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed Guiseppe Santomaso, 1968 limited edition 79/110 "Blue Space" aqua tint. Identical work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Approx. framed measurements 19.5"x22"H.
Santomaso’s c...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Metal
H 22 in W 19.5 in D 0.75 in
Geometric Triangles Pattern, Cutout Layer Paper Cyanotype in Blue, Naif Shapes
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes.
It's made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures using uv-...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Photogram, Monotype, Color, C Print, Photographic Pap...
Bacon, Portrait Isabel Rawsthorne, 2003 (after)
By Francis Bacon
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Francis Bacon (1909-1992)
Title: Portrait Isabel Rawsthorne
Year: 2003
Medium: Offset Lithograph on premium paper
Size: 39.25 x 27.5 inches
Condition: Excellent
Notes: Publis...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Mario Carreño Abstract Cuban Lithograph, 1989, Signed and Numbered
By Mario Carreno
Located in Miami, FL
Mario Carreño abstract Cuban lithograph, 1989, signed and numbered
Offered for sale is a rare lithograph by Cuban artist Mario Carreño (1913-1999) ...
Category
Late 20th Century Cuban Modern Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Giltwood, Paper
Bacon, Le Boeuf, 1986
By Francis Bacon
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: After Francis Bacon (1909-1992)
Title: Le Boeuf, exhibition poster
Year: 1986
Medium: Offset Lithograph on premium paper
Size: 30.75 x 18 inches
Condition: Excellent
Notes: Published by Foundation Maeght
FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992) Francis Bacon has a distinctive style as a figure painter. In his mature style, developed in the 1950s, the paintings include images of either friends or lovers, or images of people found in movie stills...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Previously Available Items
Night Star, Abstract Lithograph by Friedel Dzubas
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Long Island City, NY
A simple and bold abstract lithograph by Friedel Dzubas. This blue, red, and pink composition is signed, numbered, and titled in pencil by the artist.
Night Star
Friedel Dzubas, Ger...
Category
1980s Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Lithograph
Otero
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Otero, 1978
Acrylic On Canvas
10h x 9.50w in
Category
1970s Post-War Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Acrylic
Credo
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Credo, 1975
Acrylic On Canvas
10h x 9w in
Category
1970s Post-War Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Acrylic
Reef
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Reef, 1972
Acrylic On Canvas
11h x 10.50w in
Category
1970s Post-War Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract Monotype by Friedel Dzubas
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large, pastel colored monotype print on cast paper pulp by American Abstract artist, Friedel Dzubas. It is signed and dated lower center.
Category
1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Monotype
Fan Tan (Sketch)
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Fan Tan, 1972
Acrylic on Canvas
10h x 9.50w in
Category
1970s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Acrylic
Engadin I
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Engadin I, 1962
oil on canvas
69.25h x 78.75w in
Category
1960s Post-War Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Oil
Virgin
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Virgin, 1962
oil on canvas
65h x 77.75w in
Category
1960s Post-War Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, c. 1975
Acrylic on canvas
10h x 9.50w in
Category
1970s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled (GT/FD 1982 W3) aka "Islands"
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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...
Category
1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Monotype
Untitled (EXP/FD 13-07) aka "Coral Rush"
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Monotype
Above and Below
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Above and Below, 1984
Acrylic on canvas
72h x 72w in
Category
1980s Post-War Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Acrylic
Friedel Dzubas art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Friedel Dzubas art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Friedel Dzubas in paint, acrylic paint, canvas and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the abstract style. Not every interior allows for large Friedel Dzubas art, so small editions measuring 6 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Michael David, Kikuo Saito, and Martin Canin. Friedel Dzubas art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,200 and tops out at $220,000, while the average work can sell for $12,000.