Friedel Dzubas

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Friedel Dzubas was born in Berlin, Germany on April 20, 1915. He died in New York in 1994. He studied art in his native land before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and he settled in New York City.

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[edit] Art

There, he shared a studio with fellow abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler and gained recognition, but not on the scale of some of his other contemporaries like Jackson Pollock and Willem DeKooning. However he showed steadily and his large work (up to 24 feet wide) became more and more fluid.

[edit] Technique

He would apply thick layers of color over washes building drama and depth by scrubbing the paint into the unprimed canvas. He became a teacher and lecturer at many art schools. Eventually settling in Massachusetts, he had the longest relationship with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he taught from 1976 to 1983. Students remember him fondly for his warm and gracious manner and insightful instruction. He also painted and lived in New York City, where his paintings were regularly exhibited.

[edit] See also

• Color field painting
• Lyrical Abstraction
• New York School

[edit] Sources

• http://articons.co.uk/dzubas.htm
• http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=30984
• http://www.artnet.com/artist/5628/friedel-dzubas.html

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