Creator Bio
Abel Pann
1883–1963
Abel Pann (born Abba Pfeffermann) was a Latvian-born painter and printmaker, best known for his work in religious iconography. Pann studied at the Odessa School of Art before moving to Paris in 1903 to attend the Académie Julian. After working as an illustrator for French newspapers for nearly a decade, Pann left Paris for Jerusalem at the invitation of Boris Schatz, the founder and director of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where Pann took a teaching position. Pann devoted his artwork to biblical themes. After purchasing a lithographic press while traveling in Vienna, in 1921 Pann opened Jerusalem’s first lithography workshop.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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And G-d Remembered Rachel . . . And She Conceived, and Bore a Son
Abel Pann devoted much of his artistic career to painting and drawing scenes from the Hebrew Bible. Like other Jewish artists who worked in this genre, such as Ephraim Moses Lilien and Ze’ev Raban, he…
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The Day after the Pogrom (Yard in Ruins and Bereaved Family)
The Day after the Pogrom was painted shortly after the Kishinev pogrom, in which forty-nine Jews were murdered, more than 500 injured, many Jewish women raped, 700 houses ransacked and destroyed, 600…
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Under Her Father's Eyes
In 1903, the paintings of Abel Pann had helped draw attention and international outrage to the Kishinev pogrom. Pann again used his art to document the devastation of Jewish communities in Eastern…