Abstract Composition - Johnny Friedlaender
Hand signed and numbered in pencil
Etching and Aquatint on wove paper
Edition number 20/100
Date Unknown
Plate 12.5 x 16cm
Framed and mounted in a silver painted wood frame
The sheet itself appears to have yellowed slightly, commensurate with age. This is apparent on the sheet at the edge of the inner mount. Otherwise the surface of the sheet that is visible appears to be in very good, clean condition. This print has not been examined out of its frame.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil
Etching and Aquatint on wove paper
Edition number 20/100
Date Unknown
Plate 12.5 x 16cm
Framed and mounted in a silver painted wood frame
The sheet itself appears to have yellowed slightly, commensurate with age. This is apparent on the sheet at the edge of the inner mount. Otherwise the surface of the sheet that is visible appears to be in very good, clean condition. This print has not been examined out of its frame.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil
Etching and Aquatint on wove paper
Edition number 20/100
Date Unknown
Plate 12.5 x 16cm
Framed and mounted in a silver painted wood frame
The sheet itself appears to have yellowed slightly, commensurate with age. This is apparent on the sheet at the edge of the inner mount. Otherwise the surface of the sheet that is visible appears to be in very good, clean condition. This print has not been examined out of its frame.
Johnny Friedlaender (1912-1992) was a leading German/French 20th-century artist.
Friedlaender has been influential upon other notable artists, who were students in his Paris gallery. He was a pioneer of aquatint etching, a notoriously technical and difficult artistic process, creating harmonious works full of controlled yet seemingly effortless textures, colours and forms.
From his atelier in Paris, Friedlaender instructed younger artists who themselves went on to become noteworthy, among them Arthur Luiz Piza, Brigitte Coudrain, Rene Carcan, Andreas Nottebohm, and Graciela Rodo Boulanger. Like Friedlaender, these students were expert in the lithographic and etching arts. He also taught printmaker Martha Zelt.
Friedlaender’s works have been exhibited in Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Japan and the United States. The Kunsthalle Bremen dedicated a major retrospective to Johnny Friedlaender in 1987.