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Johnny Friedlaender
Artist: Johnny Friedlaender
Signed & dated:
Title: Octave
Medium: Original etching & aquatint
Edition: none
Paper size: 4 ½ x 8
Condition: Excellent
$2,500.00 Museum framed
Gotthard Johnny Friedlaender
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Was born in Pless (Pszczyna), Prussian Silesia, as the son of a pharmacist. He was graduated from the Breslau
(Wrocław) high school in 1922 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 1928. In
1930 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 1933, 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 1936 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 1937 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 1939 to 1943 he was interned in a series of
concentration camps, but survived against poor odds.
After freedom in 1944 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 Freres Tharaud of the
French Academy. In 1945 he performed work for several newspapers including Cavalcade and Carrefour. In
the year 1947 he produced the work Reves Cosmiques and in that same year he became a member of the Salon
de Mai, which position he held until 1969. In the year 1948 he began a friendship with the painter Nicolas de
Stael 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 became a French citizen in
1950.
Friedlaender expanded his geographic scope in 1951 and exhibited in Tokyo in a modern art show. In the same
year he was a participant in the XI Trienale in Milan, Italy. By 1953 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 1957, becoming the recipient of the Biennial Kakamura
Prize in Tokyo. In 1959 he received a teaching post awarded by UNESCO at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio
de Janeiro. By 1968 Friedlaender was travelling to Puerto Rico, New York and Washington, D.C. to hold
exhibitions. That year he also purchased a home in the Burgundy region of France. 1971 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, Graciela Rodo Boulanger.
Like Friedlaender, these students were expert in the lithographic and etching arts.
1978 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 at
the municipal council offices. Friedlaender died in Paris at the age of 79.
Selected works
� Enigme handsigned edition of 150 (1991)

� Jeux, handsigned edition of 150
� Sonnette für Orpheus, handsigned edition of 135
� Radierungen 1949-1989: Eine Auswahl, colour album published by Peerlings Gallery
Bibliography
� Rolf Schmücking, Friedländer: 100 Radierungen, Verlag Galerie Schmücking, Basel, 1983
Further reading
� Johnny Friedlaender: oeuvre, 1961-1965, Touchstone Publ., New York, 1967
External links
� Eine etwas ausführlichere Biografie des Künstlers
� Galerie Birch in Copenhagen
Biography from Rogallery.com:
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extensive information about American artists.
Johnny Friedlaender was a leading 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. His preferred medium of aquatint etching is a technically difficult artistic process, of
which Friedlaender has been a pioneer.
Johnny Gotthard Friedlaender was born in Pless (Silesia) and his early studies were in Breslau under Otto Mueller. In
1936 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 1937 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 1939 to 1943 he was interned in a series of concentration camps, but
survived against poor odds.
After freedom in 1944 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 Freres Tharaud of the French
Academy. In 1945 he performed work for several newspapers including Cavalcade and Carrefour. In the year 1947,
he produced the work Reves Cosmiques, and in that same year he became a member of the Salon de Mai, which
position he held until 1969. In the year 1948 he began a friendship with the painter Nicolas de Stael 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 became a French citizen in 1950.
Friedlaender expanded his geographic scope in 1951, and exhibited in Tokyo in a modern art show. In the same year
he was a participant in the XI Trienale in Milan, Italy. By 1953 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.
Friedlaender accepted an international art award in 1957, becoming the recipient of the Biennial Kakamura Prize in
Tokyo. In 1959 he received a teaching post awarded by UNESCO at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. By
1968, Friedlaender was travelling to Puerto Rico, New York and Washington, D.C. to hold exhibitions. That year he
also purchased a home in the Burgundy region of France. 1971 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, and Graciela Rodo Boulanger. Like Friedlaender, these
students were expert in the lithographic* and etching arts.
1978 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 he held a retrospective exhibition in Bonn at the municipal council

offices. Friedlaender died in Paris at the age of 89.
Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
'I eschew coincidence in my work; it is not my master. I have made
stringency my rule. I jot down my fleeting ideas in the form of
numerous sketches and, as if for a musical score, they continue to be
worked out.' (Quoted from: Friedlaender, Werkverzeichnis der
Radierungen, Verlag Galerie Peerlings) Gotthard Johnny Friedlaender
was born in Pless, Upper Silesia, on 21 June 1912, the son of an
apothecary. After refugeeing from Pless to Breslau in 1921,
Friedlaender attended higher secondary school leading to universityentrance
qualification from 1922.
Friedlaender enrolled at the Breslau Art Academy in 1928, where he
attended the master classes taught by Otto Mueller, a member of 'Die
Brücke'. Another teacher was Carlo Mense. Even during his academy
years Johnny Friedlaender worked in lithography and etching. In 1930
Friedlaender moved to Dresden, where his work was exhibited in
group shows at Galerie J.Sandel. After the war years and moving
from place to place,
Friedlaender and his wife settled in Paris as political refugees in 1937,
where Friedlaender showed his etchings at 'L'Équipe' and 'Matières et
Formes', groups headed by Gaston Diehl. In 1938 and 1939
Friedlaender worked at the literary weekly magazine 'Marianne' on
Paul Chadourne's recommendation.
The war made Friedlaender leave Paris but he returned in 1945. He
worked for various journals and concentrated on etching as his main
medium of expression but continued to do some watercolours. In
1948 Friedlaender went to Denmark, where he had exhibitions,
including one at the Birch Gallery in Copenhagen, which was followed
by others.
Friedlaender was one of the great inventors in coloured printmaking.
A school formed in Paris round his work as a painter and printmaker
and his coloured etchings were internationally aclaimed. In 1987 the
Kunsthalle Bremen mounted a retrospective of Friedlaender's work

on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. In 1992 Johnny
Friedlaender died in Paris, where he had spent most of his adult life.
Although he knew a difficult life, Friedlaender became
one of the uncontested contemporary masters of the
etching. His work went always in the heart of things and
beings, his search was constantly poetic, leaving the
freedom to his emotion and reinventing ceaselessly the
power of suggestion. He studied to the Art Institute of
Breslau (Germany)
“Octive”
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