Yankel (Jakub) Adler was born on 1895, Lodz, Poland. During the Years 1914-18 he studied in Bremen, Germany, art. Jankel Adler was a Jewish artist; many of his paintings were of Jewish subjects. During the years 1922-33 he painted fresco and oil paintings in Disseldorf. In 1933 he moved to Paris and in 1939 he settled in England. He was influenced by the works of Picasso and Lakella. His first works depicted the life of the Jews of Poland. Later he portrayed figures in abstract forms. In later life he returned his original theme of the portrayal of Jewish life. His work, "Two Rabbis" (1942) is displayed in the The Museum of Modern Art in New York
