Dimensions: 22.2 x 24.2 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'Adler 43'
on the reverse a sticker 'Cologne Art Market 1977' with the number 681
Origin
Auction House Peter Karbstein, Düsseldorf, June 2016
private 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 under 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, in the 1930s again in Paris and then 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.
