Boris Schatz, Abel Pann and the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem

Batsheva Goldman-Ida

doi:10.6001/menotyra.v27i1.4241

Batsheva Goldman-Ida

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6001/menotyra.v27i1.4241

Keywords: Arts & Crafts Movement, Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, La Ruche, Peredvizhniki, Zionism, Vilnius Academy of Art, Mark Antokolsky, Theodor Herzl, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Yehuda Pen, Abel Pann (Abba Pfeffermann), Ze’ev Raban (Wolf Rawicki), Prof. Boris Schatz

Abstract

This essay discusses the early Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem (1906–1929), highlighting the connection to Vilnius of its founder Professor Boris Schatz and of one of its teachers, Abel Pann. While Prof. Schatz represents a more academic painting style, Abel Pann is a representative of a modernist style.