Adja younkers biography of william

Adja Yunkers — Home Our Artists. He began drawing at an early age. In he moved to Germany, where he had his first solo exhibition in at the Maria Kunde Galerie in Hamburg; with his earnings from the show, he rented a studio. He became familiar with members of the Sturmgruppe, including Nolde, Schmidt, and Rottluff. He later participated in a large Russian avant-garde exhibition with Kandinsky, Archipenko, and Chagall.

He lived there until , when, with the rise in political upheaval and the persecution of Leftists, he fled Cuba for Mexico, where he met Diego Rivera. By the end of he had returned to Europe. He went briefly to Berlin, but the gaining power of the Nazi party spurred his move to Paris. In he immigrated to Sweden, where his reputation as a political artist and printmaker preceded him, and he was received with much enthusiasm.

Adja Yonkers, whose exhibition of recent paintings and collages opened this week at the Whitney Museum, is an unusually satisfying artist.

He remained in Sweden, while focusing primarily on printmaking, for the next 16 years. While living in Sweden he began to exhibit widely, quickly becoming recognized for his graphic work. His extensive collaborative work for various art publications kept him at the forefront of the European art world, and, despite a Stockholm studio fire that destroyed nearly ten years of work, he was able to continue to show that year.

His notoriety grew steadily, and his work was quickly acquired by several museums and private collections. He exhibited throughout the nation and abroad, and in he became a U. He founded the Rio Grande Workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he also taught in , publishing an entirely handmade art magazine called Prints in the Desert.