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After Lieselotte Friedlaender's parents moved from Hamburg to Berlin, the girl received her first artistic training with Hermann Sandkuhl. Friedlaender then attended drawing classes with Georg Tappert at the Wilmersdorfer Kunstschule, then the Kunstgewerbeschule Kassel, before returning to Berlin and continuing her education at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg. From 1921 Friedlaender assisted in the studio of the commercial artist Lucian Zabel. As a fashion illustrator, she had her first commission for a pattern booklet at the Ullstein publishing house. From 1922 she worked for "Moden-Spiegel," a supplement of the Berliner Tageblatt published by Mosse. Her illustrations achieved a high degree of recognition and shaped the media reception of the new, self-confident and slender type of woman of the 1920s. During this main phase of her work, Friedlaender also received commissions as a book illustrator and commercial artist. She became known for her portraits of film stars such as Rosa Valetti, Asta Nielsen, Conrad Veidt and Lilly Flohr. The breakthrough of press photography in the mid-1920s changed the status of press drawing. In addition, the enforcement of the National Socialist image of women led to the expulsion of women from creative professions. Friedlaender was dismissed from the Mosse publishing house as early as 1933 because of her Jewish ancestors and was banned from working. She scraped by with odd jobs, including as a costume and stage designer, and worked under her mother's birth name as Lilo Madrian and other pseudonyms. As a result of the increasing bombing of major cities, Friedlaender moved to Kirchdorf in the province of Hanover, where she lived until 1949. She adapted her choice of subjects to the circumstances and shifted mainly to landscapes, floral still lifes, and portraits of villagers. Returning to West Berlin, she had only sporadic commissions as a graphic artist in the 1950s.
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