Still life
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1940s
Size:10.75" x 12.75"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Provenance Engel Galleries, Jerusalem Private collection, Great Neck, NY
Jankel Adler ART FOR SALE
1895 Tuszyn, Poland - 1949 Aldbourne, England. Known for: Modernist painting shaped by Expressionism, Cubism, and his Jewish heritage.
Jankel Adler was born in 1895 in Tuszyn, Poland, and developed a modernist practice shaped by his Polish-Jewish background and by the artistic circles he encountered across Europe. Jankel Adler began... Read full biography
Jankel Adler was born in 1895 in Tuszyn, Poland, and developed a modernist practice shaped by his Polish-Jewish background and by the artistic circles he encountered across Europe. Jankel Adler began his artistic training in Belgrade in an engraving workshop before moving to Germany, where he... Read full biography
Jankel Adler was born in 1895 in Tuszyn, Poland, and developed a modernist practice shaped by his Polish-Jewish background and by the artistic circles he encountered across Europe. Jankel Adler began his artistic training in Belgrade in an engraving workshop before moving to Germany, where he studied drawing and painting with Gustav Wiethchter at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Barmen near Düsseldorf. By 1918, Adler was living in Warsaw and collaborating with the Lódz-based group Jung Idysz, an... Read full biography
Jankel Adler was born in 1895 in Tuszyn, Poland, and developed a modernist practice shaped by his Polish-Jewish background and by the artistic circles he encountered across Europe. Jankel Adler began his artistic training in Belgrade in an engraving workshop before moving to Germany, where he studied drawing and painting with Gustav Wiethchter at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Barmen near Düsseldorf. By 1918, Adler was living in Warsaw and collaborating with the Lódz-based group Jung Idysz, an association of avant-garde Jewish writers and artists whose interests aligned with his early Expressionist work. In these early years, Jankel Adler created compositions rooted in biblical and Talmudic themes, drawing on Jewish folklore and employing sharp... Read full biography
Jankel Adler was born in 1895 in Tuszyn, Poland, and developed a modernist practice shaped by his Polish-Jewish background and by the artistic circles he encountered across Europe. Jankel Adler began his artistic training in Belgrade in an engraving workshop before moving to Germany, where he studied drawing and painting with Gustav Wiethchter at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Barmen near Düsseldorf. By 1918, Adler was living in Warsaw and collaborating with the Lódz-based group Jung Idysz, an association of avant-garde Jewish writers and artists whose interests aligned with his early Expressionist work. In these early years, Jankel Adler created compositions rooted in biblical and Talmudic themes, drawing on Jewish folklore and employing sharp color contrasts and spatial distortions reminiscent of El Greco. His work was met with enthusiasm, leading to an exhibition at the Hotel Pol... Read full biography
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