German-American, 1915-1994

Friedel Dzubas was an American-German painter with close ties to the Abstract Expressionist movement in mid-century New York, following his flight from Nazi Germany in 1939. While sharing a studio with fellow abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler in the early 1950s, he produced his most important and best-remembered works: monumental compositions of flat swaths of bold colors butting up against one other, often equal in scale, in patterns reminiscent of banner flags and stacked objects. Included in the Abstract Expressionist canon by the critic Clement Greenberg, Dzubas also created works in the vein of the Lyrical Abstraction and Color Field Painting movements of the 1960s. Born on April 20, 1915 in Berlin, Germany, Dzubas held over 60 solo exhibitions during his lifetime, obtaining numerous awards including two consecutive Guggenheim Fellowships in 1966–1968, as well as teaching at prominent institutions such as Cornell University in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He died on December 10, 1994 in Auburndale, MA at the age of 79.

EDUCATION:
1936-1939, Prussian Academy of Arts

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
1952, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1958, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1966, AndrÈ Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1975, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1976, Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1976, Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1983, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1987, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Univeristy, Ithica, NY
1998, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA
1998, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA,
1999, "Abstraction: New Directions for a New Millennium," Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham
2001, "Twenty/twenty," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2004, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY
2005, "Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection," Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester, NY
2008, "Friedel Dzubas: Paintings of the 1970s and 1980s," Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY

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
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1962 Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire;
1965–66, Institute of Humanistic Studies, Aspen;
1968–69, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;
1969–1970s, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York;
1976-1983, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

AWARDS:
1966 Guggenheim Fellowship,
1968 Guggenheim Fellowship
1968 National Council on the Arts Award