Jankel Adler (1895-1949), born as Jankiel Adler in Tuszyn near Łódź into a Hasidic Jewish family, was a Polish painter and graphic artist who was strongly influenced by Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger.
He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barmen from 1914, founded the avant-garde group Jung Jiddisch in Łódź in 1919 and moved to Düsseldorf in 1922, where he taught at the academy with Paul Klee and co-founded groups such as Junge Rheinland and Rheingruppe. In 1933, he fled from the National Socialists to Paris; many of his works were confiscated as "degenerate".
He volunteered to serve in the Polish army during the Second World War, moved to London in 1943 and died in Aldbourne in 1949. His works often thematise Jewish motifs in impasto mixed media with figurative compositions.
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