Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist of Jewish origin (Vitebsk, Russian Empire, present-day Belarus, 1887–Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1985). He first trained in his hometown and later in Saint Petersburg. In 1910, he moved to Paris, where he came into contact with the modern avant-gardes and with artists linked to the School of Paris. During the Second World War, he went into exile in the United States and returned to France in 1948.

His work included painting, drawing, printmaking, stage design, costume design, ceramics, mosaic, and stained glass. Although he was influenced by Cubism, Fauvism, Symbolism, and Surrealism, he developed his own language, marked by intense color, dreamlike scenes, floating figures, and scenes inspired by memories of Vitebsk and his Jewish heritage. Love, memory, music, biblical tradition, and popular life appear repeatedly in his work.

His work is part of collections such as MoMA, Guggenheim Museum, Tate, Centre Pompidou, the National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stedelijk Museum, and the Musée National Marc Chagall in Nice. He presented important exhibitions in institutions such as MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago, which organized a retrospective of his work in 1946. In 1977, he received the Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honour.

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