Yehuda Pen, also known as Yuri Pen, was a Russian and Soviet Jewish painter and art teacher. He was a major figure of the Jewish Renaissance in Russian and Belarusian art at the beginning of 20th century. Pen's most famous student in Vitebsk was the great Jewish painter Marc Chagall.
Yehuda Pen, self-portrait, 1922
Letter from America, 1903
Old Tailor, 1910
Reading a Newspaper, 1910s
Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints.
Chagall, c. 1920
Marc Chagall's childhood home in Vitebsk, Belarus. Currently site of the Marc Chagall Museum.
Marc Chagall, 1912, The Spoonful of Milk (La Cuillerée de lait), gouache on paper
Portrait of Chagall by Yehuda Pen, his first art teacher in Vitebsk