InfoPersons, originating from Poland
Jankel Adler
Born: july 26, 1895 as Jankiel Jakub Adler in Tuszyn, a suburb of Łódź, Poland.Died: April 25, 1949 in Aldbourne, Whiltsire, England.
He was a Polish-Jewish avant-garde painter and printmaker active primarily in Germany, France and England. He was one of the founders of the Yung-yidish group in Łódź, he later became involved with the Cologne Progressives and the Union of Progressive International Artists in Germany. He was a student of the Swiss abstract painter Paul Klee.
Facing Nazi persecution, Adler fled to Paris in 1933, where he actively opposed fascism. His works were targeted by the Nazis, with several displayed in the Degenerate Art Exhibition. He fled to the United Kingdom, where he settled first in Scotland and then Aldbourne, England. He later discovered that none of his brothers and sisterd survived the Holocaust.
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