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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
Friedel Dzubas-Multi (Community Holiday Festival)-ORIGINAL
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This unsigned and unnumbered poster is an overrun from the limited edition of 144 signed and numbered pieces created by Friedel Dzubas for the Community Holiday Festival in 1973. In ...
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20th Century Contemporary Friedel Dzubas Art

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Merging Darkness
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...
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1970s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

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...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art

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Screen

Friedel Dzubas Night Star Abstract expressionist color field silkscreen signed/N
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...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art

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Screen

Untitled (Cosmic Egg)
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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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1980s Abstract Geometric Friedel Dzubas Art

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Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype

Untitled (Islands)
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994) was a Berlin-born American abstract painter. He was associated with both the New York School and the Color Field movement. Dzubas studied art in Germany ...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Friedel Dzubas Art

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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
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1980s Friedel Dzubas Art

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Screen

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...
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1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art

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Monotype

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...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

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Friedel Dzubas Otero, 1978 Acrylic On Canvas 10h x 9.50w in
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Credo
By Friedel Dzubas
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Friedel Dzubas Credo, 1975 Acrylic On Canvas 10h x 9w in
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1970s Post-War Friedel Dzubas Art

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Reef
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas Reef, 1972 Acrylic On Canvas 11h x 10.50w in
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Reef
H 11 in W 10.5 in
Abstract Monotype by Friedel Dzubas
By Friedel Dzubas
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Friedel Dzubas Fan Tan, 1972 Acrylic on Canvas 10h x 9.50w in
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Friedel Dzubas Engadin I, 1962 oil on canvas 69.25h x 78.75w in
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Engadin I
Engadin I
H 69.25 in W 78.75 in
Virgin
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Friedel Dzubas Virgin, 1962 oil on canvas 65h x 77.75w in
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Virgin
Virgin
H 65 in W 78 in

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