Salomon Adler

Salomon Adler was a German painter of the Baroque period, active in Milan and Bergamo as a portrait painter. He was the mentor of Fra' Galgario. Born in Danzig, died in Milan.

Biography

Adler came from a family of cloth makers in Gdansk. He was of Lutheran faith. His manner of painting suggests an early education in Gdansk. Perhaps he was again the same age as Andreas Ruthardt the painter Daniel Schultz in Gdansk in the doctrine and probably went with him before 1653 to Italy. His artworks show the influence of portrait painters from Venice. In the years from 1679 to 1691, he was demonstrably in Milan. He was much appreciated as a portrait painter.
He was the teacher of Fra' Galgario, who went to Milan to study his works being portrayed several times.
Rembrandt may also have influenced him through his pupil Wilhelm Drost, who was temporarily in Venice. In addition, the school of tenebrosi with its light-dark contrasts on him.
Self-portraits of Adler can be found in Bergamo, Milan, Budapest, and in the Uffizi and the Museo Bardini in Florence. In addition to Rembrandt, the French court painter Hyacinthe Rigaud is also mentioned as an influence. The only work signed by Adler is the portrait of a young man in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum of Nuremberg, which was acquired in 1963 from the Italian art trade. Known are over a dozen paintings, almost all portraits.
In 1955 there was an exhibition of him in the Palazzo della Ragione. A self-portrait was found in the Brera in Milan.