אוסף אבל פן

Abel Pann (originally Abba Pepperman) was born in the town of Kreslawka, Vitebsk, Latvia in 1883. His parents, Rabbi Nachum Ben Eliyahu Pepperman (who served as the Head of the Yeshiva) and Chaya Yirmiyahu Titleman, moved later on to St. Petersburg. In his youth he studied painting with the artist Yehuda Pann in Vitebesk, Vilna. (He also taught Marc Chagall). He later changed his name to that of his teacher. In 1898, when he was 15 years old, while working as an apprentice of sign makers, he travelled to Odessa to study in an art school. He did this with the financial support of the Baron Ginsburg. In 1903 he documented the Kishinev Pogroms in his drawings. That same year he came to Paris and studied in the Julian Academy for a number of months. He mostly drew pictures of the lives of the Jews in the towns. His works were exhibited in the Luxembourg Palace (1912) and it is there that he met Prof. Boris Shatz who invited him to come study at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. Abel Pann came to Jerusalem in 1913 for one year. He returned to Paris in 1914 to arrange bringing his belongings to Israel, however with the outbreak of WWI he was forced to remain in Paris. (As a Russian citizen he was considered an enemy subject in terms of the Ottoman Empire). During this period he frequently documented the scenes of the war, especially the fate of Russian Jewry and the German occupation, in pastel paintings. During the war (1917) he left France and moved to the United States. In 1918 he exhibited his works, mainly his paintings of Biblical scenes in a successful exhibition in New York. Pann returned to Israel in 1921 to study at the Bezalel Art Academy. He brought with him a printing press from Vienna and began printing his drawings of Biblical scenes. He was drawn to the field of printing drawings and opened a printing house where he produced lithographs of his works. Many of his drawings are of scenes from the Bible which for him were proof and confirmation of the Zionist idea and of the national revival in the Land of Israel. In his drawings of Biblical figures Pann strove to portray Biblical figures or events as if they were taking place here and now. The Biblical figures in his drawings have an exotic Eastern look. In 1921 Abel Pann married Esther Nussbaum, the daughter of Yitzchak Moshe and Pearl nee Shebdron. They had two children: Etiel (1922-2009) and Eldad (1928-1948). After the birth of their son Eldad, the family moved to Geneva, Switzerland. In 1931 they moved to Nice, France. They returned to Israel in 1937 and moved to Jerusalem, 54 Ben Maimon Boulevard in Rehavia. Later they moved to 8 Koreh Hadorot Street in Talpiot. Their youngest son was killed during the War of Independence in the battle for Gush Etzion on 13 May 1948. After the death of his son, Pann tended to withdraw and spent most of his time in his house. He passed away in 1963 at the age of 80. This album includes personal and family pictures as well as various drawings and sketches. The pictures were given to the Yad Ben-Zvi Archives by their eldest son, Etiel Pann. اقرأ أكثر