Yehuda Pen’s works on display in Zarasai

      Yehuda Pen’s works from the Vitebsk Oblast Local Lore Museum are on show for the first time in his hometown Zarasai, Lithuania. The expo, Yehuda Pen – 160. Return, kicked off the City Day celebrations in Zarasai. The exposition features 27 artworks: Zarasai and Vitebsk landscapes, portraits, genre-pieces. The exhibition is organized as part of the project, The Jews’ Cultural Road (Visual Art): Yehuda Pen and His Famous Apprentices, which unites Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus. Yehuda Pen’s anniversary was also marked by the fifth plain-air entitled Zarasai – Land of Lakes 2014, which final exhibition displayed the works of Lithuanian, Latvian and Belarusian artists. Vitebsk was presented by Andrei Dukhovnikov and Dmitry Gorolevich.
    Yehuda Pen was a teacher of Mark Chagall, Ossip Zadkine, Oskar Meshchaninov, El Lissitzky and other outstanding masters. Yehuda Pen was born to a large family in the city of Novoalexandrovsk (nowadays Zarasai, Lithuania). From 1891 the painter lived in Vitebsk where he set up a studio school for talented provincial painters in 1897.