Dimensions: 31 x 25.5 cm
Signed p.d.: 'adler'
Origin
Tiroche auction house, Herzliya, January 2018
institutional collection, Poland
Biography
He began his artistic education in Poland and continued it in Yugoslavia, in an engraving workshop. Around 1918, he completed his studies in Barmen near Düsseldorf with Gustav Wiethüchter. After returning to Poland, he worked with the "Jung Jidysz" group of Jewish painters and poets in Lodz in the period 1918-20. From 1924 he lived outside the country - in Paris, Düsseldorf, Berlin, in 1929-30 in Majorca and Spain, and in the 1930s again in Paris, then also in London. He exhibited in Warsaw, Lodz, Wroclaw, London, New York and Edinburgh. Initially he created paintings with themes drawn from Jewish folklore, but later his work was influenced by the achievements of Paul Klee, whom he met in 1933, and Pablo Picasso. He painted still lifes, portraits and figural compositions. He was also an art critic.
