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Henri Friedlaender was born on 15 March, 1904 in Lyon, France, is an Israeli typographer and book designer. Discover Henri Friedlaender's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?
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92 years old |
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Pisces |
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15 March, 1904 |
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15 March |
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Lyon, France |
| Date of death |
15 November, 1996 |
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Jerusalem, Israel |
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France
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Henri Friedlaender Height, Weight & Measurements
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Henri Friedlaender Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Henri Friedlaender worth at the age of 92 years old? Henri Friedlaender’s income source is mostly from being a successful designer. He is from France. We have estimated Henri Friedlaender's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Henri Friedlaender (1904–1996) was an Israeli typographer and book designer.
He co-founded the Hadassah Printing School and served as the first director of the school.
He was born in Lyon, France, in 1904 to a British mother, Rose Calmann and a German-Jewish father, Théodore Friedlaender, who was a silk merchant.
His sister was the ceramic artist Marguerite Wildenhain.
When he was six years old the family moved to Berlin where he attended the Mommsen-Gymnasium.
In 1925, he moved to Leipzig, where he studied calligraphy and printing in Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts.
In 1930, Friedlaender started working on the Hebrew typeface Hadassah in Germany.
He later worked with B. G. Teubner and with Wirth in Dresden, with Jakob Hegner in Hellerau, and for the Klingspor Type Foundry with Max Dorn.
After working with Rudolf Koch he became a typographic designer with Hartung in Hamburg and later a printer and manager with Haag-Drugulin in Leipzig with Ernst Kellner.
In 1932, Friedlaender immigrated to the Netherlands where he worked as art director of Drukkerij Mouton & Co. in The Hague.
In 1940 Friedlaender married Maria Helena Bruhn, a gymnastics teacher.
Due to the Nazi occupation restrictions he had to stop his professional activities and hide in the attic of his house in Wassenaar.
Between 1940 and 1945 he was totally isolated, communicating only with his wife who, herself not being Jewish, could overtly make a living.
In 1950, Friedlaender along with his wife and daughter immigrated to Israel, where he headed the Hadassah-Brandeis Apprentice School of Printing in Jerusalem.
In these years he continued to work for the Exilliteratur publishers Querido and Allert de Lange,Exil editions | Koninklijke Bibliotheek and further designed the Hadassah typeface (completed in 1958).
Retiring in 1970 he continued to work as a book designer and teacher, and designed three Hebrew typefaces for the IBM Selectric typewriter II typeball (Shalom, Hadar, Aviv).
Henri Friedlaender received the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz in 1971.
Friedlaender died in Motza Illit (near Jerusalem) at the age of 92, in 1996 and his wife died in 1994, at the age of 90.
