Friedel Dzubas

An émigré to New York from Berlin during the rise of European fascism, Friedel Dzubas brought to American painting a dynamic vision of pictorial space shaped by his early exposure to German historical fine art and decorative painting. Later in life, Dzubas expanded his points of reference to include Italian painters from Giotto to Tiepolo. Dzubas’s large-scale, luminous, and viscerally charged canvases are among the most stunning and dramatic of any created from the 1940s to the early 1980s in North America. With works in many important private collections and museums and with contemporary exposure in a variety of exhibition venues shared with artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, Adolph Gottlieb, Morris Louis, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, and Jack Bush, Dzubas’s art was significant for the emerging critical and artistic dialogue of his time.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Solomon R. 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