Ed Adler (1917-1984) - Sleeping Woman on Chair, Oil on Canvas.
Signed.
65x50cm.

Adolf (Ed) Adler was born in 1917 in Votish, in the province of Sato Mara, Romania. His father, Kalman Rosenblatt, worked at a flour station. His mother Rivkas father, Eliyahu Aryeh Adler, was the author of the Talmudic book Torat Eliyahu. Already as a child he began painting. He received his first lessons from a set painter of the municipal theater in Sato Mara. In 1930 he worked for about a year as a sign painter. After that he made a living by painting. At the end of the -30 enlisted in the Romanian army, but was released in 1940 after the handover of Transylvania to Hungary. He settled in Kolez (now Cluj-Napoca), where he earned a living by figurative painting for advertising signs. In 1942 he was sent to a labor camp. After that, his family was sent to the Cluj-Napoca ghetto In 1944 he escaped and ended up in a Soviet camp, while most of his family was sent to extermination camps. After the end of World War II, he returned to Koloz, where he met Moskowitz. At the same time he joins the artists association. In 1948 he enrolled in art studies in Bucharest and was admitted to the fourth year. In 1957, after submitting an application to immigrate to Israel, he was expelled from his membership in the Artists Association and made a living by painting portraits. In 1963 immigrated to Israel and settled in Rishon Lezion.
Adlers main work was in the field of painting. His works dealt with the description of the Holocaust and his experiences in the labor camp. Alongside these he created works on Jewish subjects.
Source: https://museum.imj.org.il/artcenter/newsite/he/