Vintage Adolf Adler Jewish Wedding Oil on Canvas Chuppah Judaica Art 22"

Description

Vintage oil on canvas painting by Adolf (Adi) Adler showing a Jewish wedding scene with Chuppah and Rabbis.

Provenance : Jerome Schottenstein Estate, Columbus Ohio. Jerome was was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, co-founder of Schottenstein Stores Corp. The Schottenstein family were Lithuanian immigrants who began an extensive business empire in the late 19th Century. Schottenstein Stores owns stakes in DSW and American Signature Furniture; American Eagle Outfitters, retail liquidator SB360 Capital Partners, over 50 shopping centers, and 5 factories producing its shoes and furniture. It also holds an ownership interest in American Eagle Outfitters, Wehmeyer in Germany, Cold Stone Creamery and The Mazel Company.

Adolf Adler (1917-1996) was a Romanian Jewish painter known for his figure, genre and landscape paintings and his aching images of the Holocaust realized in oil, watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, and felt-tipped pen.

Adler was born in the ancient Hungarian city of Satu-Mare in Northern Transylvania (now Romania) on the eve of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He began painting as a youth and moved with his family in 1936 to Cluj where he studied painting under Professor Mohi Sandor (1902-1974).

During the Second World War, Adler was deported by the Hungarians in 1942 to a forced labour camp in the Ukraine. Escaping to Russia in 1944, he was imprisoned by the Soviets. Following his release in 1945, he returned to Cluj to find most of his family had perished in Auschwitz. The next year, Adler married and began exhibiting his work.

In 1947, he became a member of the artists’ union and the following year, was granted advanced standing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cluj. He graduated with honors in 1950 and served as a teaching assistant there from 1952 to 1958. The Romanian government bought some his paintings, which were still on display at the Museum of Art in Cluj into the ‘70s.

In 1963, among several notable artists, Adler immigrated with his wife and two daughters to Israel. There he reconnected with his older brother after a 25-year separation and was accepted into the Israeli Painters and Sculptors Association in 1964. Adler continued to portray the experiences of the Jews of Eastern Europe and for decades exhibited his paintings and drawings across Israel and around the world. In 1984, a retrospective of his work was held in Rishon Le Zion where he lived until his death in 1996.

Adler’s works continue to be represented at Yad Vashem’s museum of art, the world's largest collection of artwork created by victims of Nazi occupation from 1933 to 1945.

Condition

Very Good

Dimensions

22” x 1.875” x 18” / Sans Frame - 15.5” x 11.5” (Width x Depth x Height)