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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yehuda Pen has received more than 62,014 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Yehuda Pen is the 1,494th most popular painter (down from 1,082nd in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 80th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Lithuanian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Yehuda Pen ranks 1,494 out of 2,023. Before him are Vadym Meller, Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Suzanne Manet, Thomas Girtin, Alla Horska, and Paul César Helleu. After him are Effie Gray, Alice Pike Barney, Peter Michal Bohúň, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Tomás Maldonado, and Teodor Axentowicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Yehuda Pen ranks 80. Before him are Giovanni Battista Grassi, Sergei Shchukin, Johan Turi, Jenny Nyström, Jules Gilliéron, and Cornelis Lely. After him are Joan Alcover, Nikolai Ruzsky, Alexandru Macedonski, L. A. Ring, Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt, and Takamine Jōkichi. Among people deceased in 1937, Yehuda Pen ranks 114. Before him are Ilya Ilf, Ernst Hoppenberg, Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama, Adalbert Deșu, Mikheil Javakhishvili, and Andrew Mellon. After him are Jean de Brunhoff, André Bessette, Camillo Berneri, Alexander Chayanov, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, and Valerian Pidmohylny.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Yehuda Pen ranks 107 out of 328. Before him are Vlado Perlemuter (1904), Rimas Kurtinaitis (1960), Władysław Kozakiewicz (1953), Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (1963), Virgilijus Alekna (1972), and Meir Vilner (1918). After him are Modestas Paulauskas (1945), Laurynas Gucevičius (1753), Yakov Smushkevich (1902), Irena Veisaitė (1928), Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851), and Sigitas Tamkevičius (1938).

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Among PAINTERS In Lithuania

Among painters born in Lithuania, Yehuda Pen ranks 7. Before him are Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875), Isaac Levitan (1860), Jacques Lipchitz (1891), George Maciunas (1931), Varvara Stepanova (1894), and Ben Shahn (1898). After him are Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851), and Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836).

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