Johnny Friedlaender LES OIXEAUX 1973 Original Lithograph XXieme Siecle in Paris

This is a Johnny Friedlaender original lithograph titled “Les Oiseaux”.

Printed in Mourlot, Paris in 1973. Published by XXieme siecle, this is an unsigned, unnumbered edition of 1500.

Measures 13.25″ x 9.5″. Bright and fresh with rich colors on wove paper.

In excellent condition. Comes with a certificate of authenticity.

This piece retails at fine galleries for $300 and up.

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Naturalized French in 1952, Johnny Friedlaender was born in 1912 in Germany. 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 Institut of Breslau (Germany) where Otto Mueller was one of his professors. From 1930 till 1933, he settled down in Dresden, making brief stays in Berlin and in Paris. In 1933, he was interned in a Nazi camp; discharged, he took refuge in Czechoslovakia, then in Holland. He reached Paris in 1937 and was arrested there later with number of foreign refugees. Johnny Friedlaender joined up the English army, was arrested and ran away. 

In the immediate post war, the artist settled down in Paris where he set up an etching atelier: l’Ermitage. In 1966, he was named a professor to the Academy of Salzburg and in the same time he resumed the painting which he had abandoned in the 40s. Johnny Friedlaender participated in numerous collective demonstrations, his first personal exhibition was organized in Paris in 1949 (Galerie La Hune). The director – Bernard Gheerbrant – of the Galerie La Hune was faithful to him up to his death in 1992.