Adja Yunkers (1900-1983)
Professions: Pastel Artist; Painter
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Adja Yunkers (Latvian/American, 1900-1983)
Adja Yunkers Biography
(b Riga, 15 July 1900; d New York, 24 Dec 1983). American painter and printmaker of Latvian birth. He enrolled in art school in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) and then travelled through Russia. He left the country after the Revolution (1917). During the 1920s he lived variously in Europe and Latin America, establishing contact with such leading artists as Emil Nolde, Karl-Georg Heise (b 1890) and Diego Rivera. Yunkers fought in the Spanish Civil War (19369) and moved to Stockholm from 1939 to 1947, where he edited and published the periodicals Creation , Ars and Art Portfolio (1969 exh. cat., pp. 3031. In 1947 ten years work was lost in a studio fire.
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Adja Yunkers, (Latvian/American, 1900-1983), A group of three prints (Summer in Venice I; Facing Prisms; Red Square)
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Adja Yunkers, (Latvian/American, 1900-1983), Summer in Venice, 1
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Adja Yunkers (Latvian/American, 1900-1983) Lot of Two Images: Head of a Traveler, 1952, editio...
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Adja Yunkers, (Latvian/American, 1900-1983), Chant d'un Oiseau Sourd
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Adja Yunkers (Latvian/American, 1900-1983) Personal Epiphany Signed in pencil and dated 1953 l.r., titled l.l.Woodblock print, sheet si
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ADJA YUNKERS (1900-1983): "BLACK & PURPLE"



