Jankel Adler

Jankel Adler
Adler in 1924, photographed by August Sander
Born	Jankiel Jakub Adler (1895-07-26)26 July 1895 Tuszyn, Łódź, Poland
Died	25 April 1949(1949-04-25) (aged 53) Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England
Nationality	Polish
Education	Barmen School of Art
Known for	Painting, printmaking

Jankel Adler (born Jankiel Jakub Adler;^[1] 26 July 1895 – 25 April 1949) was a Polish-Jewish avant-garde painter and printmaker active primarily in Germany, France and England.^[2] He began his career as an engraver in Belgrade before studying arts in Germany. Co-founding the Yung-yidish group in Łódź, 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 painter Paul Klee who had an important influence on Adler's work.

Facing

Jankiel Jakub Adler was born as the seventh of ten children in 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

Degenerate Art Exhibition

in Munich.

Late career

With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he volunteered for the

Bushey, Hertfordshire.^[7]

Work

Adler was strongly influenced by Picasso and Léger. He enjoyed experimenting with materials, for example sand admixtures. He often painted Jewish subjects, and painted a few abstract compositions.

• 
  Woman with Cat (1944; Aberdeen Art Gallery)
• 
  The Venus of Kirkcudbright
• 
  A self-portrait
• 
  Homage to Durruti

See also

• List of German painters
• List of Polish Jews
• List of Polish artists

Bibliography

• Stefan Themerson, Jankel Adler: an artist seen from one of many possible angles, Gaberbocchus Press, London. 1948
• Andrzej Kempa, Marek Szukalak, The Biographical Dictionary of the Jews from Lodz, Łódź 2006: Oficyna Bibliofilów and Fundacja Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzense, pp. 6–7,
  ISBN 83-87522-83-X
  .
• Annemarie Heibel, Jankel Adler (1895-1949). Band I: Monografie, Band II: Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde (= Wissenschaftliche Schriften der WWU Münster, Reihe X. Band 23). Verlagshaus Monsenstein und Vannerdat OHG, Münster 2016,
  ISBN 978-3-8405-0128-9. Online edition: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-88239662183
  .
• Rachel Dickson, From Adler to Żuławski: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain, Ben Uri Research Unit; Illustrated edition, London 2021,
  ISBN 978-0900157660
  .

References

1. ISBN 9783643111708
   . Retrieved 1 July 2019.
2. ISSN 0391-9064
   .
3. ^ van Doesburg, Theo. "De Stijl, "A Short Review of the Proceedings [of the Congress of International Progressive Artists], Followed by the Statements Made by the Artists' Groups" (1922)". modernistarchitecture.wordpress.com. Ross Lawrence Wolfe. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
4. ^ Benus, Benjamin. "Figurative Constructivism, Pictorial Statistics, and the Group of Progressive Artists, c. 1920-1939" (PDF). DRUM. University of Maryland. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
5. ^ "Adler, Jankel, 1895–1949". Art UK. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
6. ^ "Kirkcudbright Galleries". June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
7. ^ ^{a b c} "Jankel Adler - Artist". Aldbourne Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
8. ^ Lee, David; Shuttleworth, Malcolm, eds. (2000). The Millennium Book of Aldbourne - A Snapshot of the Parish in the Year 2000. Aldbourne: Trustees of the Aldbourne Memorial Hall. p. 201.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jankel Adler.

• Jankel Adler collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved September 2016.
• 5 artworks by Jankel Adler at the Ben Uri site