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)to
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Friedel Dzubas, Merging Darkness, 1974
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
1974
Magna acrylic on canvas
6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (16.5 x 16.5 cm)
Unique
Signed and titled, verso
Framed, pristine condition
Category
1970s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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....
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Paper
$6,975 Sale Price
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"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Pastel Colors, Intense Red, Color Field, Unique Work
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1981
Hand-painted monotype on pulp paper
30 1/4 x 24 3/4 inches
A noted figure in the New York School, Friedel Dzubas was associated with the Color Field p...
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1980s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Monotype
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.
Friedel Dzubas, German/American (1915–1994...
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1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
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Monotype
"Northern Cool (sketch)" Friedel Dzubas, Light Blue, Green, Abstract Composition
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Northern Cool (sketch), 1978
Magna acrylic on canvas
5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Provenance
The artist
Estate of Friedel Dzubas
Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York
Bernard Jac...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
Materials
Screen
"Juncture (sketch)" Friedel Dzubas, Color Field, Green and Red, Abstract Sketch
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Juncture (sketch), 1978
Acrylic on canvas
5 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches
Provenance
The artist
Estate of Friedel Dzubas
Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York
Loretta Howard Gallery...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Pastel Pink, Color Field, Abstract Expressionist Work
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1982
Monotype on handmade paper
33 1/4 x 33 inches
A noted figure in the New York School, Friedel Dzubas was associated with the Color Field painting movem...
Category
1980s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Monotype
"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Hand-painted, Color Field, Earth and Primary Colors
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1987
Hand-painted monotype on paper
29 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches
A noted figure in the New York School, Friedel Dzubas was associated with the Color Field painti...
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1980s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Monotype
"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Red, Green, Bright Pastel Colors, Color Field Work
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1982
Monotype on handmade paper
34 x 33 1/4 inches
A noted figure in the New York School, Friedel Dzubas was associated with the Color Field painting movem...
Category
1980s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Monotype
Friedel Dzubas, Nightstar, 1984
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
1984
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 22 1/2 x 29 in. (57.2 x 73.7 cm)
Edition of 90
Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Framed, pristine condition
Category
1980s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Screen
"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Shades of Red and Blue, Lyrical Expressionist Work
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1985
Acrylic on paper
24 1/2 x 30 inches
A noted figure in the New York School, Friedel Dzubas was associated with the Color Field painting movement in the...
Category
1980s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Night Star
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 Expressionist Friedel Dzubas Art
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Screen
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, Fugue, 1984
By Friedel Dzubas
Located in New York, NY
1984
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 29 x 22 1/2 in. (73.7 x 57.2 cm)
Edition of 90
Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Framed, pristine condition
Category
1980s Color-Field Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Screen
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...
Category
1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Monoprint, 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...
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1980s Abstract Friedel Dzubas Art
Materials
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
Materials
Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
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
Materials
Handmade Paper, Monoprint, 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
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
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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