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Johnny Friedlaender
"I love to search for the treasures of the old forgotten alchimy."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Johnny Fiedlaender, qui avait fuit le nazisme et s’était établi en 1937 à Paris, qui connut plusieurs camps d'internement d'étrangers, qui travailla avec la Résistance et échappa par miracle aux camps hitlériens, qui prit la nationalité française en 1952, Johnny Fiedlaender, meurt à Paris le 18 juin 1992 à la veille d’entrer dans sa 81ème année ; il choisit d’être incinéré. Un rite funéraire se déroula à la synagogue de Paris. En hommage à sa mémoire, une orchidée.
"Je ne suis qu’un peintre qui grave." - Johnny Friedlaender
"Friedlaender porte dans son oeuvre un esprit, un tour et un ton qui ne sont qu'à lui parmi les graveurs modernes. Son oeuvre se continue et se soutient dans un ordre d’idées graphiques de plus en plus original d'invention et d'achèvement." - Christian Zervos
"L’exaltante mélodie poétique de Friedlaender possède un extrême don de pénétration spirituelle et d'enivrante invitation à l’évasion." - Gaston Diehl
"Friedlaender aimait tout dans la gravure : le cuivre lui-même et toutes les techniques : eau-forte, burin, vernis mou, relief, berceau, aquatinte... Il exigeait que tout fût vraiment gravé en creux, sans tricherie; le métier absolu." - Elève anonyme de l’artiste
"Le peintre Friedlaender dans une démarche unique apporte à l'appui du graveur Friedlaender une dimension nouvelle, celle de la transparence. Tout son être est regard. Lorsqu'il déchiffre cet univers à l'immuable gravitation, sait-il où va ce regard toujours plus axé au coeur de la création ?" - Bernard Gheerbrant, galeriste, éditeur, fondateur de la librairie La Hune.
"Johnny Friedlaender condensa toutes les lumières nocturnes." - Paul Eluard
Notes of biography
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.
He made friends with Jacques Villon. 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 (1992).
The etching which he had approached younger by a way very close to German expressionists, quickly evolved towards a colored abstraction, with signs, etchings with multiple encrage, finally similar to Hayter’s technique.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
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*« Radierungen, 1930-1972 », Vol. I de l'oeuvre gravé, R. Schmücking, Verlag Galerie Schmücking, 1973
*« Radierungen, 1973-1976 », Vol. II, R. Schmücking, Verlag Galerie Schmücking, 1977
*« Radierungen, 1982-1988 », Vol. IV, Verlag Galerie Peerlings, 1988
*« Radierungen, 1988-1992 », Vol. V, F. Rupp et W. Schmidt, Verlag Galerie Peerlings, 1999
*« Approche du C.R. de l'oeuvre peint », Brigitte Coudrain : en ligne
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Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « J. Fiedlaender », B. Geerbrant, In « Dict. des artistes contemporains », 1964
- « J. Fiedlaender, œuvre gravé 1961-1965 », M.-P. Fouchet, R. Hänssel, NY, 1965
- « F., Œuvre de 1961 à 1965 », Max-Pol Fouchet, Ed. Manus Presse, Stuttgart, 1967
- « Johnny Fiedlaender », in revue Cimaise n°113-114, Paris, sept.-déc. 1973
- « Rétrospective de l'œuvre gravé 1848-1978 », coll., cat.,, MAM de la ville de Paris, 1978
- « Friedlaender », C. Dorny, Art & Métiers du livre, Paris, 1991
- « J. Fiedlaender, du noir à la couleur », Galerie de Condé, Paris, 1994
- La donation Johnny Friedlaender », cat., Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, 1996
- « J. F. - Gravures inédites », cat., Musée Unterlinden, Colmar/RMN, Paris, 2001
- « J. F., le graveur dans son temps », cat., Institut nat. d'histoire de l'art, Paris, 2008
To read from the artist :
- « Petit bestiaire », J. Cassou, gravures J. F., Ed. Manus Pr., Stuttgart, 1963
- « Stèles », V. Segalen, gravures J. F., Ed. Bibliophiles de Provence, Marseille, 1969
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Stamp by Johnny Friedlaender
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Artist's dedicated catalogue
B. Viarouge Collection / This document is not for sale
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to Johnny Friedlaender
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Johnny Fiedlaender, qui avait fuit le nazisme et s’était établi en 1937 à Paris, qui connut plusieurs camps d'internement d'étrangers, qui travailla avec la Résistance et échappa par miracle aux camps hitlériens, qui prit la nationalité française en 1952, Johnny Fiedlaender, meurt à Paris le 18 juin 1992 à la veille d’entrer dans sa 81ème année ; il choisit d’être incinéré. Un rite funéraire se déroula à la synagogue de Paris. En hommage à sa mémoire, une orchidée.
"Je ne suis qu’un peintre qui grave." - Johnny Friedlaender
"Friedlaender porte dans son oeuvre un esprit, un tour et un ton qui ne sont qu'à lui parmi les graveurs modernes. Son oeuvre se continue et se soutient dans un ordre d’idées graphiques de plus en plus original d'invention et d'achèvement." - Christian Zervos
"L’exaltante mélodie poétique de Friedlaender possède un extrême don de pénétration spirituelle et d'enivrante invitation à l’évasion." - Gaston Diehl
"Friedlaender aimait tout dans la gravure : le cuivre lui-même et toutes les techniques : eau-forte, burin, vernis mou, relief, berceau, aquatinte... Il exigeait que tout fût vraiment gravé en creux, sans tricherie; le métier absolu." - Elève anonyme de l’artiste
"Le peintre Friedlaender dans une démarche unique apporte à l'appui du graveur Friedlaender une dimension nouvelle, celle de la transparence. Tout son être est regard. Lorsqu'il déchiffre cet univers à l'immuable gravitation, sait-il où va ce regard toujours plus axé au coeur de la création ?" - Bernard Gheerbrant, galeriste, éditeur, fondateur de la librairie La Hune.
"Johnny Friedlaender condensa toutes les lumières nocturnes." - Paul Eluard
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