Dagmar Frinta

Dagmar Frinta is a well-known artist, who was born in Manhattan. She studied at the Scuola Niccolò Machiavelli in Florence, Italy from 1968 to 1969, and obtained a BFA from Syracuse University in 1978.

Since then she has been widely published in major magazines, and newspapers, including a six page article in Graphis in 1985. In 1983 she won a Silver Medal from the NYC Art Director's Club. Her work has been shown in galleries in Italy, the Czech Republic, and New York. Dagmar has been commissioned to create bookjackets, posters, and worked as a bookbinder, architect, fabricator, painter and illustrator. Her notable clients include: Robert Musil, Sherwood Anderson, Charles Portis, Lou Reed, and Peter Lynch.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s she taught at Syracuse University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

In 2006, she was a founding member of the Bau Institute workshops, collaborating with architect Paola Iacucci.

Dagmar is currently a faculty member of Parsons The New School for Design.

References

Place Bid - BiddingForGood Fundraising Auction BAU Institute, BiddingForGood Inc. (Retrieved 5 March 2011.)

Dagmar Frinta Parsons The New School for Design. (Retrieved 5 March 2011.)

Biography : Dagmar Frinta Dagmar Frinta. (Retrieved 5 March 2011.)

Dagmar Frinta The BAU Institute. (Retrieved 5 March 2011.)

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Name	Frinta, Dagmar
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Short description	Artist
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Place of birth	Manhattan, New York
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