Purim Spiel (Purim Play)

Jankel Adler

1931

Painting of three figures holding objects with horse, Egyptian sphinx and moon in background.
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Jankel Adler

1895–1949
The painter Yankl (also Jankel) Adler was born in Tuszyn (now in Poland) into a Hasidic family. He studied engraving in Łódź in 1913 and received further training in Germany. He later moved back to Łódź and helped to launch the Yung-yidish cultural movement, championing the themes and stylistic features of German expressionism. In 1920, he moved back to Germany, aligning himself with the left-wing avant-garde. His pictures from the Weimar period include no Jewish references. He lived in France from 1933 to 1940 and then fought with the Polish Free Army before being evacuated to Scotland in 1941. He eventually moved to London. He returned to painting Jewish themes in the 1940s. His work frequently depicts the suffering of European Jewry during the Nazi years.

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