Jakub Weinles

{{Short description|Polish painter}}

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| birth_name = Jakub Weinles

| birth_date = 1870

| birth_place = Starokostiantyniv, Russian Empire

| death_date = 1938

| death_place = Warsaw, Poland

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| nationality = 18px Polish

| field = Painting

| training = School of Fine Arts in Warsaw

| movement = Realism, Symbolism

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Jakub Weinles (1870, Starokostiantyniv – 1938, Warsaw) was a Polish painter of Jewish ancestry, creating art around Jewish culture, and an active participant of the Jewish Society of the Nurture of Fine Arts (Yiddish: Jidiszer Gezelszaft cu Farszprajnt Kunst, Polish: Żydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pięknych).{{cite web|title=Weinles Jakub|url=http://www.sztetl.org.pl/pl/person/1047,jakub-weinles/|website=Sztelt|accessdate=4 September 2016}}

Weinles studied at Wojciech Gerson's art class, and at the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the 1890s.{{cite web|title=Jakub Weinles|url=http://www.artinfo.pl/artysta/jakub-weinles|website=Artinfo|accessdate=4 September 2016}} He completed art workshops with Szymon Hollosy in Munich. In 1898, he returned to Warsaw where he painted with other Jewish painters.{{cite web|title=Weinles Jakub|url=http://www.jhi.pl/psj/Weinles_Jakub|website=Żydowski Instytut Historyczny|accessdate=4 September 2016|archive-date=10 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810022354/http://www.jhi.pl/psj/Weinles_Jakub|url-status=dead}} His wife was Łucja from the House of Kaufman, with whom he had two daughters: Franciszka Themerson, also a painter and Maria Chajnik. He is buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw; however, his headstone has not survived.{{cite book|last1=Zimler|first1=Henryk Kroszczor, Henryk|title=Cmentarz żydowski w Warszawie = Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw|date=1983|publisher=Państwowe Wydawn. Nauk.|location=Warszawa|isbn=83-01-04304-0|edition=Wyd. 1.}}{{cite web|title=Main Page|url=http://cemetery.jewish.org.pl/|website=Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland|accessdate=4 September 2016}}

File:Weinles On the eve of Yom Kippur.jpg|On the Eve of Yom Kippur

File:Weinles Jakub.Akt.jpg|Nude

File:Weinles Jakub.Portret Żyda.jpg|Portrait of a Jew