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Friedel Dzubas, (German-American, 1915-1994)
Friedel Dzubas was born in Berlin and studied at the Prussian Academy of Fine Art under Paul Klee while in Dusseldorf from 1936-39. In 1939 Dzubas fled to the US via London and became and American citizen.
In 1948, 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 1960s, Dzubas began exhibiting in NY. These works are characterized for a brevity of gesture and an emphasis on luminosity of oil paint applied in thin veils of color. Dzubas is a noted color field painter in the NY School. He evolved into a deft Post-Painterly Abstractionist and returned to more gesturally abstract works towards the end of this career. Throughout he taught at many esteemed institutions, including Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and Cornell College, Ithaca, New York.
Links
friedeldzubas.org
nonsite.org/greenberg-on-dzubas
washingtonpost.com/archive
fwmoa.blog/2019/09/16/treasures-from-the-vault-friedel-dzubas/