Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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)

Artist: Friedel Dzubas

Friedel DzubasBlack Tondo, 1982

$7,000

Black 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 i...

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1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype

Friedel DzubasUntitled (Islands), 1982

$5,700

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 Mixed Media

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Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype

Friedel DzubasUntitled (Cosmic Egg), 1982

$7,500

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 Mixed Media

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Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype

Toma YovanovichMid-Century Modern Abstract Monotype Print, 1960's

$475

H 14 in W 18 in

Mid-Century Modern Abstract Monotype Print

By Toma Yovanovich

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original mid century modern abstract expressionist monotype print by American artist Toma Yovanovich. Toma Yovanovich (1931-2016) Yovanovich was a painter/printmaker whos...

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1960s Abstract Geometric Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Monoprint, Monotype

Kind of CyanWave III, Unique Monotype Cyanotype, Horizontal Diptych of, 2025

$820

H 28 in W 80 in

Wave III, Unique Monotype Cyanotype, Horizontal Diptych of

By Kind of Cyan

Located in Barcelona, ES

Wave III, is an exclusive handmade cyanotype horizontal diptych that captures the gentle curl of an organic mid-motion wave. Rendered in deep Prussian blues and ethereal whites, the...

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2010s Abstract Geometric Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Paper, Monotype

Pierre Marie BrissonComing Alive, Abstract Large-Scale Etching in Earthtones, 1984

$1,800

H 32 in W 30 in D 2 in

Coming Alive, Abstract Large-Scale Etching in Earthtones

By Pierre Marie Brisson

Located in Soquel, CA

Geometric limited edition etching, hand painted abstract of an orange and blue figure inside of a circle by Pierre Brisson (French, b, 1955). Signed "Brisson" lower right and "720/75...

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1980s Abstract Geometric Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Etching, Oil, Printer's Ink

Anne YoukelesGemini, 1960s Op Art geometric silkscreen, mixed media paper, Signed AP, Framed, ca. 1969

$2,000

H 28 in W 28 in D 0.5 in

Gemini, 1960s Op Art geometric silkscreen, mixed media paper, Signed AP, Framed

By Anne Youkeles

Located in New York, NY

Anne Youkeles Gemini, ca. 1969 Three-dimensional mixed media silkscreen on folded sheets of thin card Hand-signed by artist in pencil, titled and annotated Artist's Proof I from the ...

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1960s Abstract Geometric Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Laid Paper, Screen

Amy SandsRevolution XXVI - blue delicate intricate lasercut abstract geometric print, 2017

$1,600

H 22.25 in W 22.25 in

Revolution XXVI - blue delicate intricate lasercut abstract geometric print

By Amy Sands

Located in New York, NY

Amy Sands Revolution XXVI Monoprint, serigraphy, lasercut on three sheets of rice paper 15 x 15, 22 1/4 x 22 1/4 framed in a white wood frame 2017 Amy Sands' works of art embody so...

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2010s Contemporary Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Rice Paper, Monoprint

Steven SormanBurden of Need, 39x64 Multi media with hand coloring and collage, 1989

$2,500

H 39 in W 64 in D 1 in

Burden of Need, 39x64 Multi media with hand coloring and collage

By Steven Sorman

Located in Southampton, NY

Steve Sorman has had over 80 solo artist exhibitions throughout the United States . I have included, just for reference, some images of his museum show so that you can see the body...

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1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Aquatint

Douglas Mcclellan'Cretan View', California Artist, SFMOMA, Metropolitan, LACMA, 1988

$3,300

H 23.5 in W 17.75 in

'Cretan View', California Artist, SFMOMA, Metropolitan, LACMA

By Douglas Mcclellan

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Signed lower right, 'Douglas McClellan' (American, 1921-2016), dated 1988 and titled lower left, 'Cretan View'; additionally signed, titled, dated and media noted as 'monotype with c...

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1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Paper, Tissue Paper, Monotype

Anne YoukelesPersian Garden, Op Art 3D Color Silkscreen w/ Arches paper backing Signed/N '70s, ca. 1970

$2,800

H 23 in W 23 in

Persian Garden, Op Art 3D Color Silkscreen w/ Arches paper backing Signed/N '70s

By Anne Youkeles

Located in New York, NY

Anne Youkeles Persian Garden, ca. 1970 3D Color Silkscreen w/ Arches paper backing Hand-signed by artist in pencil, titled and numbered 37/100 on backing sheet of Arches paper. 23 x ...

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1970s Abstract Geometric Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Screen, Laid Paper

Michael HeizerIII-8, Hand painted, signed Monoprint composition of two separate sheets, Framed, 1983

$25,000

H 37.5 in W 57.5 in D 1 in

III-8, Hand painted, signed Monoprint composition of two separate sheets, Framed

By Michael Heizer

Located in New York, NY

Michael Heizer III-8 (two pages), 1983 Monoprint on two individual sheets of white handmade TGL paper, hand colored with colored pencils, paint sticks, and liquid and spray acrylic p...

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1980s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Color Pencil, Monoprint, Mo...

Paulo WellmanUnion II, 2021

$750

H 30 in W 15 in

Union II

Located in Crested Butte, CO

When Many Becomes One is a series of new work exploring form and the relationship between the individual and collective. Paulo Wellman has employed vari...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Monoprint

Alan ShieldsTreasure Rute I, Relief, stamping, linocut, collage on handmade paper, Signed/N, 1979

$4,000

H 29 in W 20 in D 1.5 in

Treasure Rute I, Relief, stamping, linocut, collage on handmade paper, Signed/N

Located in New York, NY

Alan Shields Treasure Rute I, 1979 Relief, stamping, linocut, collage on handmade paper Titled, numbered, signed, and dated Treasure Rute I 1/11 Alan Shields 1979 on the bottom front...

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1970s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Linocut

Agathe BoutonFactory XI: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint in red, framed, 2024

$2,300

H 26 in W 20 in D 1 in

Factory XI: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint in red, framed

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This framed work is one-of-a-kind colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. The work itself is 20" x 16", and it is framed to 26" x 20" in a contemporary, simple white wood...

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