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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.