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Pann studied the fundamentals of drawing for three months with the painter Yehuda Pen of Vitebsk, who also taught Marc Chagall . In his youth he travelled in Russia and Poland , earning a living mainly as an apprentice in sign workshops. In 1898 he went south to Odessa where he was accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1903 Pann moved to Paris and in 1913, after traveling in Southern Europe and Egypt , he arrived in Palestine where he was invited to teach in the Bezlel Academy of Art. Biblical paintings were the core of Pann's oeuvre. The iconography of these works is linked to the 19th century orientalism which regarded the east as a world of violence, barbarism and sensuality. As a member of the founding generation of Israeli artists Abel Pann was one of the best known and most committed exponents of certain fundamental beliefs and principles that informed Zionist art in its early days.1
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Abel Pann in 1912 Abel Pann (1883–1963), born Abba Pfeffermann in Latvia or in Kreslawka, Vitebsk , Belarus , sources vary, was a European Jewish artist who spent most of his adult life in Jerusalem ."Painter of the Jewish fate; The Abel Pann exhibition at the Israel Museum is not called a retrospective, but in the introduction to the catalogue the director of the Israel Museum, James Snyder, defines it as "the first comprehensive museum presentation of his work," Smadar Sheffi, 17.11.03, Haaretz.
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Abel Pann, 1912 Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under Boris Schatz .On a small Jerusalem street, a historic literary rivalry
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Abel Pann, 1912 Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a Russian-born Jewish painter and print-maker who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under Boris Schatz . On a small Jerusalem street, a historic literary rivalry
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Abel Pann, 1912 Abel Pann ( Hebrew : אבל פן ; 1883–1963) was a Russian-born Jewish painter and print-maker who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under Boris Schatz . On a small Jerusalem street, a historic literary rivalry
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russian-born jewish painter and print-maker who settled in the talpiot neighborhood of jerusalem in the early t
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