Artist
Jankel Adler
Polish, 1895–1949
Jankel Adler was a Polish Art Brut artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. Jankel Adler was born in Tuszyn.
Jankel Adler 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, 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.
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