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Frederic Taubes

Frederic K. Taubes (1900 - 1981) was active/lived in New York.  Frederic Taubes is known for Landscape, portrait, still life.

Perhaps known more by younger generations of artists for putting his name on a line of artists' canvas and supplies, Frederic Taubes pursued a multi-dimensional career as artist, writer on art and printmaker.

Born in 1900 in Lwow, Poland, where he studied art privately, Taubes fled with his family to Austria when World War I began, studying at the Imperial Museum and Academy of Art in Vienna. After the War, he studied one year at the Academy in Munich before involving himself in a one hundred eighty degree directional change in artistic philosophy by attending the avant-garde Bauhaus in Weimar in 1920.

Not surprisingly, the young artist fell under the Bauhaus spell, particularly the color theories of Johannes Itten, with whom he studied. While Itten would be a life-long influence, Taubes was also involved in Dada, Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism.

But after moving to New York City in 1930, it was surprising, given the modernist aspects of his artistic educatio   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2178 characters.]  Artist bio

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