Johnny FRIEDLAENDER was born in Pless / Upper Silesia in 1912. From 1928 attendance at the Academy of Fine Arts in Breslau, master class for painting with Otto Mueller. First drafts for etchings and lithographs emerge. 1930 relocation to Dresden and first participation in exhibitions. 1933 internment. 1936 escape and emigration to Czechoslovakia. After an exhibition in The Hague, the artist left Holland and reached Paris as a political refugee. In 1939 there was another arrest and internment. 1944 return to Paris. From now on he devotes himself more and more to etching. 1952 acceptance of French citizenship. In 1966 he took up painting again, the first pictures were taken since 1940. 1966/67 professorship at the Salzburg Summer Academy. After a lively exhibition activity and numerous trips, the artist died in Paris in 1992. 1977 — first exhibition in the gallery Welz.
Johnny FRIEDLAENDER was born in Pless / Upper Silesia in 1912. From 1928 attendance at the Academy of Fine Arts in Breslau, master class for painting with Otto Mueller. First drafts for etchings and lithographs emerge. 1930 relocation to Dresden and first participation in exhibitions. 1933 internment. 1936 escape and emigration to Czechoslovakia. After an exhibition in The Hague, the artist left Holland and reached Paris as a political refugee. In 1939 there was another arrest and internment. 1944 return to Paris. From now on he devotes himself more and more to etching. 1952 acceptance of French citizenship. In 1966 he took up painting again, the first pictures were taken since 1940. 1966/67 professorship at the Salzburg Summer Academy. After a lively exhibition activity and numerous trips, the artist died in Paris in 1992. 1977 — first exhibition in the gallery Welz.
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