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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jankel Adler, Ein Jude, c. 1926

Jankel Adler 1895-1949

Ein Jude, c. 1926
etching on paper
44.5 x 34.7 cm
2008-14
© Jankel Adler estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
Following earlier visits, Adler arrived in Paris in 1933, where he worked alongside the printmaker Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17. He can be seen as part of a ‘second wave’ of...
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Following earlier visits, Adler arrived in Paris in 1933, where he worked alongside the printmaker Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17. He can be seen as part of a ‘second wave’ of artists from Russia who were drawn west to Germany, then France. His etching, Ein Jude, brings a modernist technique to a traditional subject. Ein Jude which refers specifically to his Jewish identity combines modernist aspects - flattened and geometric forms and enlarged hands - with the archetypal image of the bearded eastern European shtetl Jew, reminiscent of the main protagonist of Fiddler on the Roof.
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Provenance

Purchased from Peter Gidal and his mother 2008

Exhibitions

2009
Homeless & Hidden 1: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden
Ben Uri Gallery


2010
Apocalypse: unveiling a lost masterpiece by Marc Chagall and 50 selected masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
Osborne Samuel


2012
Chaim Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris and School of London works from the Ben Uri Collection
Ben Uri Gallery


2013
Chagall, Soutine and the School of Paris: touring exhibition
Manchester Jewish Museum


2015
Out of Chaos – Ben Uri: 100 Years in London
Somerset House


2016
100 for 100: Ben Uri Past, Present & Future
Christie's South Kensington


2017
Entartete Kunst (“Degenerate Art”) Remembered
Ben Uri (Online)


2018
Exodus: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
Bushey Museum


2018
Acquisitions and Long-Term Loan Highlights Since 2001
Ben Uri Gallery


2019
Expression of Freedom: Bunt and Yung-Yidish - an exhibition that was not here...
Museum of the City of Łódź

Literature

Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall, eds., Out of Chaos: Ben Uri; 100 Years in London (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015) pp. 66-67;
Sarah MacDougall ed., Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2012) p. 14;
Apocalypse: Unveiling a lost masterpiece by Marc Chagall (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2010).
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