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Johnny Friedlaender
German painter (–)
Johnny Friedlaender (26 December &#; 18 June ) was a leading German/French 20th-century artist, whose works have been exhibited in Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Japan and the United States. He has been influential upon other notable artists, who were students in his Paris gallery. Johnny painted using oils and watercolors but his preferred medium was aquatintetching which is a technically difficult artistic process, of which Friedlaender has been a pioneer.
Early years
Gotthard Johnny Friedlaender was born in Pless (Pszczyna), Prussian Silesia, as the son of a pharmacist. He graduated from the Breslau (Wrocław) high school in and then attended the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Bildenden Kunste) in Breslau, where he studied under Otto Mueller. He graduated from the Academy as a master student in In he moved to Dresden where he held exhibitions at the J. Sandel Gallery and at the Dresden Art Museum. He was in Berlin for part of , and then journeyed to Paris. After two years in a Nazi concentration camp, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia, where he settled in Ostrava, where he held the first one-man show of his etchings.
Re-entry to Paris
In Friedlaender journeyed to Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria, France and Belgium. At The Hague, he held a successful exhibition of etchings and watercolours. He fled to Paris in as a political refugee of the Nazi regime with his young wife, who was an actress. In that year he held an exhibition of his etchings which included the works: L ‘Equipe and Matieres et Formes. From to , he was interned in a series of concentration camps, but survived against poor odds.
After freedom in , Friedlaender began a series of twelve etchings entitled Images du Malheur, with Sagile as his publisher. In the same year he received a commission to illustrate four books by the brothers Jean and Jérôme Tharaud of the French Academy. In he worked for several newspapers including Cavalcade and Carrefour. He produced the work Rêves Cosmiques in and the same year became a member of the Salon de Mai, a position he held until In , he began a friendship with the painter Nicolas de Staël and held his first exhibition in Copenhagen at Galerie Birch. The following year he showed for the first time in Galerie La Hune in Paris. After living in Paris for 13 years, Friedlaender acquired French nationality by naturalization on 28 November [1]
Friedlaender expanded his geographic scope in and exhibited in Tokyo in a modern art show. In the same year he was a participant in the XI Triennale in Milan, Italy. By he had produced works for a one-man show at the Museum of Neuchâtel and exhibited at the Galerie Moers in Amsterdam, the II Camino Gallery in Rome, in São Paulo, Brazil and in Paris. He was a participant of the French Italian Art Conference in Turin, Italy that same year.
International recognition
Friedlaender accepted an international art award in , becoming the recipient of the Biennial Kakamura Prize in Tokyo. In he received a teaching post awarded by UNESCO at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. By Friedlaender was travelling to Puerto Rico, New York City and Washington, D.C. to hold exhibitions. That year he also purchased a home in the Burgundy region of France. was another year of diverse international travel including shows in Bern, Milan, Paris, Krefeld and again New York. In the latter city he exhibited paintings at the Far Gallery, a venue becoming well known for its patronage of important twentieth-century artists.
From his atelier in Paris Friedlaender instructed younger artists who themselves went on to become noteworthy, among them Arthur Luiz Piza, Brigitte Coudrain, Rene Carcan, Andreas Nottebohm, and Graciela Rodo Boulanger. Like Friedlaender, these students were expert in the lithographic and etching arts. He also taught printmaker Martha Zelt.[2]
brought a retrospective of Friedlaender's works at the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He was awarded the Lovis Corinth Prize in Regensburg three years later. On his 75th birthday, Friedlaender was given a retrospective in the Bremen Art Museum. On his 80th birthday a retrospective exhibition was held in Bonn, Germany at the municipal council offices. Friedlaender died in Paris at the age of
Art Value
Since the record price for works by Johnny Friedlaender at auction is 8, USD for an oil painting titled PAYSAGE VII, VII which sold at Artcurial in [3]
Selected works
- Enigme handsigned edition of ()
- Jeux, handsigned edition of
- Sonnette für Orpheus, handsigned edition of
- Radierungen Eine Auswahl, colour album published by Peerlings Gallery
See also
Further reading
- Rolf Schmücking, Friedländer: Radierungen, Verlag Galerie Schmücking, Basel,
- Johnny Friedlaender: oeuvre, , Touchstone Publ., New York,