Marc Chagall
Painting, Visual Artist
1887 – 1985
Who was Marc Chagall?
Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century". An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.
According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's preeminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra.
Before World War I, he traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922.
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- Born
- Jul 6, 1887
Vitebsk - Parents
- Spouses
- Bella Rosenfeld
(1915/07/25 - 1944/09/02) - Valentina Brodsky
(1951/07/12 - 1985/03/28)
- Bella Rosenfeld
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- France
- Russia
- Belarus
- Profession
- Lived in
- Liozna
- Died
- Mar 28, 1985
Saint Paul de Vence
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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