Friedel Dzubas  (American/German, 1915-1994) 

Berlin-born American painter Friedel Dzubas (American/German, 1915–1994) studied with Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879–1940) in Düsseldorf during the 1930s before immigrating to the United States. During the 1950s, he shared a studio with Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928–2011), and was one of the original 61 invited artists to participate in the first annual Ninth Street Art Exhibition, and also exhibited at The Stable Gallery in New York during the 1950s. In the 1960s, he became associated with Color Field Painting and Lyrical Abstraction. During this time, Dzubas befriend the well-known art critic Clement Greenberg, who introduced him to Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956). Over the next 30 years, Dzubas had numerous solo exhibitions around the world. Dzubas died in 1994 in New York.