Friedel Dzubas
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Friedel Dzubas (born April 20, 1915 in Berlin, Germany, died 1994 in New York). He studied art in his native land before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and he settled in New York City. Dzubas began exhibiting his Abstract expressionist paintings in important venues during the 1950s. His work was included in the legendary Ninth Street Show in New York City in 1951, and in group exhibitions at the Leo Castelli gallery. In the 1960s he became associated with Color field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. He was included in Post-painterly abstraction a 1964 exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg. Dzubas was a friend of Clement Greenberg, who in turn introduced him to Jackson Pollock and other artists.
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[edit] Art
In Manhattan during the early 1950s, 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. During the last three decades of his career Dzubas had more than sixty solo exhibitions in important galleries around the world. He was represented by the Andre Emmerich gallery and Knoedler Contemporary Arts in New York for more then thirty years. Eventually in 1976 settling in Massachusetts, He also painted and lived in New York City, where his paintings were regularly exhibited.
[edit] Technique
He was known for using Magna paint an oil based acrylic paint. Magna was originally developed by the paintmakers Leonard Bocour and Sam Golden for and also used by Morris Louis. Dzubas would apply thick layers of color over washes building drama and depth by scrubbing the paint into the unprimed canvas. Dzubas used staining, brushing and other ways of applying sensitive and intense color. His paintings were generally large in size and scale, but he made many very small paintings as well.
[edit] Teaching
He became a teacher and lecturer at many art schools.
- 1962 Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire;
- 1965-1966, Institute of Humanistic Studies, Aspen;
- 1968-1969, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;
- 1969-1970s, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York;
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.
[edit] See also
[edit] Selected Museum collections
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Guggenheim Museum, New York
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
- Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
- Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
- Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
- Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
- Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
- Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
- Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
- Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
[edit] Awards
- 1966 Guggenheim Fellowship,
- 1968 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1968 National Council on the Arts Award
[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
