Johnny Friedlaender

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

Johnny Friedlaender is one of the pioneers of modern color etching . He gave this difficult artistic technique a new, contemporary form of expression, which combined tradition with innovation. Many important artists were introduced to etching in his workshop in Paris.

The most important stations in life

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

From 1939 to 1943 he was interned in the Meslay-du-Maine camp, after the liberation he served for a time in a unit of the British Army. His etching cycle "Images du malheur" dates from 1944. After the end of the war in 1945 he returned to Paris and received French citizenship in 1950.

After the Second World War

In 1951 Friedländer took part in the Triennale in Milan and the exhibition of modern art in Tokyo , as well as four years later in the Biennale of São Paulo and in the 1st International Graphic Exhibition in Ljubljana . In 1956 his works were exhibited in Paris , Cincinnati , Cleveland , San Francisco , New York and Washington, DC . Two years later, he represented France at the Biennale of Venice (chart).

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

In 1980 a retrospective took place in the Albertinum in Dresden . He was awarded the Lovis Corinth Prize in 1982.

Important students

literature

  • Fabrice Flahutez : Friedlaender, Johnny . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 45, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22785-X , pp. 112-114.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 337.
  • Kunstverein Darmstadt: German contemporary erasers. Darmstadt 1982, p. 66f. ISBN 3761081219 .
  • Rolf Schmücking, Friedländer - 100 etchings. Basel 1983.
  • Geneviève Debien: Johnny Friedlaender. Student rebel and later "innovator" of color etching . In: Dagmar Schmengler u. a. (Ed.): Painter. Mentor. Magician. Otto Mueller and his network in Breslau, Heidelberg a. a .: Kehrer 2018. ISBN 978-3-86828-873-5 , pp. 330–335.

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SURNAME Friedlaender, Johnny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedlaender, Gotthard Johnny (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French graphic artist and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Pless , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1992
Place of death Paris