page_title: Henri Friedlaender
section_title: Career and Personal Life
hierarchical_section_title: Henri Friedlaender / Career and Personal Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Typographer Henri Friedlaender and his wife Maria, in his study in Motza Illit, Israel (1989)
context_page_description: Henri Friedlaender was an Israeli typographer and book designer. He co-founded the Hadassah Printing School and served as the first director of the school.
context_section_description: 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 Druckerei Mounton & 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 these years he continued to work for the Exilliteratur publishers Querido and Allert de Lange, and further designed the Hadassah typeface (completed in 1958). 
  In 1950, Friedlaender along with his wife and daughter immigrated to Israel, where he headed the Hadassah-Brandeis Apprentice School of Printing in Jerusalem. 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).
  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.
caption: Henri Friedlaender and his wife Maria, in his study in Motza Illit, Israel (1989)
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