Friedel Dzubas was a German-born American abstract painter.
11 Facts About Friedel Dzubas
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Friedel Dzubas studied art in his native land before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and settling in New York City.
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Friedel Dzubas began exhibiting his Abstract expressionist paintings at this time.
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Friedel Dzubas's work was included in the Ninth Street Show in New York City in 1951, and in group exhibitions at the Leo Castelli gallery, the Stable Gallery, and the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, among others.
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Friedel Dzubas was included in Post-painterly abstraction a 1964 exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg.
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Friedel Dzubas was represented by the Andre Emmerich gallery and Knoedler Contemporary Arts in New York for more than thirty years.
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Friedel Dzubas's works were exhibited at galleries including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery and the Jacobson Howard Gallery in New York City.
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Friedel Dzubas used Magna paint, an acrylic paint favored by many of the artist's peers over oil paint, from 1966 onward.
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Friedel Dzubas used staining, brushing and other ways of applying color.
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Friedel Dzubas's paintings were generally large in size and scale, but he made many very small paintings as well.
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Friedel Dzubas had the longest relationship with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he taught from 1976 to 1983.