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Jakub Weinles (1870,
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– 1938,
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) was a Polish painter of
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ancestry, creating art around
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culture, and an active participant of the Jewish Society of the Nurture of Fine Arts (
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: ''Jidiszer Gezelszaft cu Farszprajnt Kunst'',
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: ''Żydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pięknych''). Weinles studied at
Wojciech Gerson Wojciech Gerson (; 1 July 1831 – 25 February 1901) was a Polish painter, educator, architect and art critic who was one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long ...
's art class, and at the School of Fine Arts in
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in the 1890s. He completed art workshops with Szymon Hollosy in
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. In 1898, he returned to
Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
where he painted with other Jewish painters. His wife was Łucja from the House of Kaufman, with whom he had two daughters:
Franciszka Themerson Franciszka Themerson (28 June 1907 – 29 June 1988) was a Polish, later British, painter, illustrator, filmmaker and stage designer. Biography Themerson was born in Warsaw in 1907, the daughter of the artist Jakub Weinles and pianist Łucja ( ...
, also a painter and Maria Chajnik. He is buried at the
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in
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; however, his headstone has not survived. File:Weinles On the eve of Yom Kippur.jpg, ''On the Eve of
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'' File:Weinles Jakub.Akt.jpg, ''Nude'' File:Weinles Jakub.Portret Żyda.jpg, ''Portrait of a Jew''


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Weinles, Jakub 19th-century Polish painters 19th-century Polish male artists 20th-century Polish painters 20th-century Polish male artists Jewish painters 19th-century Polish Jews 1870 births 1938 deaths People from Starokostiantyniv Polish male painters Painters from the Russian Empire