Johnny Friedlaender

Gotthard Johnny Friedlaender ( born December 26, 1912 in Pless, Upper Silesia, † June 18, 1992 in Paris) was a German printmaker and etcher.

Johnny Friedlaender, one of the pioneers of modern color etching. He gave this difficult artistic technique a new contemporary form of expression, which linked the tradition with innovation. In his workshop in Paris many prominent artists were familiar with the etching.

The main stages of life

Friedlander studied from 1928 to 1930 when Otto Mueller and later with Carlo Mense at the State Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Breslau until he moved as a 18 -year-old to Dresden, where his first exhibitions of his works took place. In 1933 he was arrested and interned in a concentration camp. Although he was released in December, but had to report daily to the police. This was one of the reasons that he emigrated in 1935 in Czechoslovakia, where in 1936 some of his etchings were exhibited for the first time. A year later undertook Friedländer a trip to Paris, where he continued his residence permit had to renew every week as a political refugee. There he made ​​etchings and made illustrations for the weekly Marianne.

From 1939 to 1943 he was interned in the camp of Meslay- du- Maine, after the liberation, he served for a time in a unit of the British Army. From 1944 dated his etchings "Images du malheur ". After the war ended in 1945 he returned to Paris.

After the Second World War

In 1951 Friedlander part in the Triennale in Milan and at the Exhibition of Modern Art in Tokyo, just four years later at the São Paulo Biennial and at the 1st International Print Exhibition in Ljubljana. In 1956, exhibitions of his work took place in Paris, Cincinnati, Cleveland, San Francisco, New York and Washington, DC instead. Two years later, he represented France at the Venice Biennale ( chart).

In 1959 Friedlander, a teaching of UNESCO at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. He received in 1969 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class and 1975 turned the ZDF a film about his life. After further international exhibitions, including 1976 in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and two years later at the Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1978 Friedlander et des Lettres appointed Officier des Arts.

1980 was a retrospective Albertinum place in Dresden. The Lovis Corinth Prize was awarded to him in 1982.

Significant Pupils

  • Hans Brög
  • Tuvia Beeri
  • René Carcan
  • Brigitte Coudrain
  • Alfred Pohl
  • Ulrike Ottinger
  • Hans Schweizer
  • Wim Wenders
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