Johnny Friedlaender
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Johnny Friedlaender (26 December 1912 – 18 June 1992) 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 aquatint etching which is a technically difficult artistic process, of which Friedlaender has been a pioneer.
Early years
Gotthard Johnny Friedlaender was born in
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 the brothers
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 Triennale 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
From his
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, Germany at the municipal council offices. Friedlaender died in Paris at the age of 80.
Art Value
Since 2000 the record price for works by Johnny Friedlaender at auction is 8,828 USD for an oil painting titled PAYSAGE VII, VII 1979 which sold at Artcurial in 2007.[3]
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
See also
Further reading
- Rolf Schmücking, Friedländer: 100 Radierungen, Verlag Galerie Schmücking, Basel, 1983
- Johnny Friedlaender: oeuvre, 1961-1965, Touchstone Publ., New York, 1967
References
- ^ "Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets". Gallica. 7 December 1952. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
- ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
- ^ "Johnny Friedlaender - Mutual Art".