August 2024 Vol. 99
August Edition 2024 vol. 99
Friedel Dzubas was an American-German painter celebrated among the second generation of Abstract Expressionists in mid-century New York, following his flight from Nazi Germany in 1939. By the mid-1960s, Dzubas had switched from oil to acrylic paint, creating what critic Clement Greenberg called Post-Painterly Abstraction. This style eschewed expressionistic brushwork, turning instead to a new “cool,” surface flatness attained by pouring, sponging, and spraying acrylic paint. This was employed by his contemporaries such as Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler, the latter with whom Dzubas shared a studio in 1952.