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Yehuda Pen

1854 - 1937

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Yudel Pen, also known as Yehuda Pen or Yury Pen, (5 June [24 May Old Style] 1854 - 28 February 1937) was a Jewish artist and art teacher active in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. He is best known for founding an influential art school in Vitebsk and teaching notable avant-garde artists like Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky, and Ossip Zadkine. Pen was one of the first painters to consistently depict Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement; he is sometimes called "the Sholem Aleichem of painting". Born in a poor Jewish family in a shtetl, he showed an early talent for drawing and painting. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yehuda Pen is the 1,758th most popular painter (down from 1,494th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 107th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Lithuanian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Yehuda Pen ranks 1,758 out of 2,023. Before him are Marianne Stokes, Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst, Frederick Sandys, Vilho Lampi, Charley Toorop, and Frederic Remington. After him are Arpenik Nalbandyan, Jamini Roy, Edmund Dulac, Ilka Gedő, Carmen Herrera, and Juan Manuel Blanes.

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Among people born in 1854, Yehuda Pen ranks 104. Before him are Aristarkh Belopolsky, Adela Zamudio, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Giuseppe Veronese, Hans Jæger, and Ernest Belfort Bax. After him are Joseph Jacobs, David Dunbar Buick, Gerhard Louis De Geer, Teuku Umar, Ali bin Said of Zanzibar, and Hermann Oldenberg. Among people deceased in 1937, Yehuda Pen ranks 147. Before him are Mykola Zerov, Grafton Elliot Smith, Magnús Guðmundsson, Felix Graf von Bothmer, Sigizmund Levanevsky, and Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj. After him are Madison Grant, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Colin Clive, Frank Morley, Marguerite Audoux, and Noel Rosa.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Yehuda Pen ranks 158 out of 328. Before him are Vladas Mironas (1880), Mykolas Biržiška (1882), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Abram Deborin (1881), Zigmantas Balčytis (1953), and Abram Room (1894). After him are Remigijus Valiulis (1958), Ernestas Galvanauskas (1882), Mordecai Kaplan (1881), Mikalojus Daukša (1527), Mark Antokolsky (1843), and Bronislovas Lubys (1938).

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Among PAINTERS In Lithuania

Among painters born in Lithuania, Yehuda Pen ranks 9. Before him are Jacques Lipchitz (1891), George Maciunas (1931), Varvara Stepanova (1894), Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836), Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851), and Ben Shahn (1898).

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