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 ...