Abel Pann

Abel Pann (; born Abba Pfeffermann; 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.

Biography Abel Pann was born in 1883, into a Jewish family in Krāslava, today in Latvia, but at that time in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. He was the son of Rabbi Nachum Pfeffermann and Batia née Titleman. Abel grew up in an orthodox home and was educated in the cheder. His family moved to Daugavpils where his father took a position at the rabbinical school. Abel Pann immigrated to Ottoman Palestine and settled in Jerusalem. He was married to Esther Nussbaum. He earned his living primarily by drawing pictures for the popular illustrated newspapers of the era.

Biblical paintings Upon his return to Jerusalem in 1920, Pann took up a teaching position at the Bezalel Academy and wrote that he was about to embark on his life-work, the painting and drawing of scenes from the Hebrew Bible. He said that he wished to present the Bible's characters as "possessing the passions of human beings... with their virtues and vices, loves and hatreds." Abel Pann, Mayanot Gallery, Jerusalem. (1987)