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Jankel Adler
Modernist Ink and Wash Drawing, Painting Jankel Adler Woman Model Ecole De Paris

c.1930's-1940's

$4,500
£3,461.70
€4,018.05
CA$6,346.07
A$7,108.67
CHF 3,733.73
MX$86,439.15
NOK 47,281.22
SEK 44,882.59
DKK 29,988.26

About the Item

Jankel Adler (Polish, 1895–1949) 'Seated Nude' Watercolor in sepia tones on paper, Hand signed Dimensions: Framed 26 x 20 inches, sheet 17.88 x 14.75 inches Provenance: Bears a label verso from A.M. Adler Fine Arts NYC Jankel Adler (born Jankiel Jakub Adler, 1895 – 1949) was a Polish-Jewish avant-garde painter and printmaker active primarily in Germany, France and England. He began his career as an engraver in Belgrade before studying arts in Germany. Co-founding the Yung-yidish group in Łódź (Lodz, Poland), he later became involved with the Cologne Progressives and the Union of Progressive International Artists in Germany. He began teaching at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and was a student of the Swiss abstract expressionist painter Paul Klee who had an important influence on Adler's work. Facing Nazi persecution, Adler fled to Paris in 1933, where he actively opposed fascism. His works were targeted by the Nazis, with several displayed in the Degenerate Art Exhibition. Adler volunteered for the Polish army during World War II but was later discharged for health reasons, eventually settling in Scotland and then Aldbourne, England. He later discovered that none of his siblings survived the Holocaust. Adler died in Aldbourne in 1949. Yankel Yaacov Adler was born as the seventh of ten children to an Orthodox Jewish family Tuszyn, a suburb of Łódź. In 1912 he began training as an engraver with his uncle in Belgrade. He moved in 1914 to Germany where he lived for a time with his sister in Barmen, (now part of Wuppertal). There he studied at the college of arts and crafts with professor Gustav Wiethücher. From 1918 to 1919 he went back to Łódź, where he was joint founder of Yung-yidish, a group of young Jewish artists. In 1920 he returned briefly to Berlin; in 1921 he returned to Barmen, and in 1922 he moved to Düsseldorf. In May 1922 he attended the International Congress of Progressive Artists and signed the "Founding Proclamation of the Union of Progressive International Artists". He also joined Franz Seiwert and Otto Freundlich in an artists group known as the Cologne Progressives. He became a teacher at the Academy of Arts, and became acquainted with, and influenced by the surrealism of Paul Klee and the expressionism of Otto Dix. A painting by Adler received a gold medal at the exhibition "German art Düsseldorf" in 1928. In 1929 and 1930 he went on study trips in Mallorca and other places in Spain. During the election campaign of July 1932 he published, with a group of leftist artists and intellectuals, an urgent appeal against the policy of the National Socialists and for communism. As a modern artist, and especially as a Jew, he faced persecution under Hitler's regime which took power in 1933. In that year, two of his pictures were displayed by the Nazis at the Mannheimer Arts Center as examples of degenerate art, and Adler left Germany, staying in Paris where he regarded his exile consciously as political resistance against the fascist regime in Germany. Adler was affiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris; together with other outstanding Jewish artists of that milieu, he is sometimes considered to be part of a group referred to specifically as the Jewish School of Paris. Includes painters Jankel Adler, Arbit Blatas, Marc Chagall, Jacques Chapiro, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Sigmund Menkes, Jules Pascin, Issachar Ryback, Jacques Lipchitz, Chana Orloff, and Ossip Zadkine. Ecole de ParisIn the years that followed, he made numerous journeys to Poland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania and the Soviet Union. He also spent time in Paris, working at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter. In 1937, twenty-five of his works were seized from public collections by the Nazis and four were shown in the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he volunteered for the Polish army that had been reconstituted in France; in 1941 he was discharged for health reasons and lived thereafter in Kirkcudbright in Scotland where his work at this time included his Venus of Kirkcudbright. In 1943 he moved to London, Adler had a major impact on several younger, British artists, notably Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde. Adler’s Jewish heritage was a great influence on his early work, but in the early 1930s he moved away from Expressionism to experiment with abstraction and surrealism. Around 1945 a wealthy patron, Jimmy Bomford, arranged for him to live at Aldbourne, Wiltshire. He later learned that none of his nine siblings in Poland had survived The Holocaust. Adler died in Whitley Cottage in Aldbourne on 25 April 1949 at the age of 53, and is buried at the Jewish cemetery in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Adler was strongly influenced by Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger. He enjoyed experimenting with materials, for example sand admixtures. He often painted Jewish subjects, and painted a few abstract compositions.Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum Sztuki in Łódź, among others.
  • Creator:
    Jankel Adler (1895 - 1949, British, Polish)
  • Creation Year:
    c.1930's-1940's
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 26 in (66.04 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38214598362

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