Friedel Dzubas

The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is abstract art. Places of work recorded in the authority are United States. Work by Friedel Dzubas is recorded in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art and Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.

• Name — Friedel Dzubas • Born — 20 April 1915 • Birthplace — Berlin, Germany • Died — 10 December 1994 • Place of death — Auburndale, Massachusetts • Movement — Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction • Awards — Guggenheim Fellowship 1966, 1968 • Known for — Abstract painting

Friedel Dzubas studied art in his native land before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and settling in New York City. In Manhattan during the early 1950s, he shared a studio with fellow abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler. He began exhibiting his Abstract expressionist paintings at this time. His 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. After the Ninth Street Show annual invitational exhibitions were held at the Stable Gallery throughout the 1950s. The poster of the second New York Painting and Sculpture Annual at The Stable Gallery in 1953, included an introduction by Clement Greenberg: 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. His large work (up to 24 ft wide) became more fluid. During the last three decades of his career, Dzubas had more than sixty solo exhibitions around the world. He was represented by the André Emmerich gallery and Knoedler Contemporary Arts in New York for more than thirty years. His works were exhibited at galleries including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery and the Jacobson Howard Gallery in New York City. In 1976 he settled in Massachusetts, but also painted and lived in New York City, where his paintings were regularly exhibited.

Friedel Dzubas is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship.

• 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 • Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida • Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY • Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, New York