“My painting represents not the dream of one people but of all humanity”
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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall was a Belarusian and French artist of Jewish ancestry. 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.
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culture · Russian and French artist (1887–1985) · painter · printmaker · poet · lithographer · designer · graphic artist · illustrator · scenographer · sculptor · architectural drafter · also Marc Chagall, Marc Zakharovich Chagall, Chagall, Mark Zakharovich Shagal, Moses Shagal, Marḳ Shagal
Born 14 July 1887 · Died 28 March 1985 · Q93284
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2026· 9 entries
“In the East I found the Bible and part of my own being.”
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“the most vivid impression he had ever received”
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“The factories were stopping. The horizons opened. Space and emptiness. No more bread. The black lettering on the morning posters made me feel sick at heart”
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“I felt at every step that I was a Jew—people made me feel it”
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“The street lamps are out. I feel panicky, especially in front of butchers”
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MutualArt: Marc Chagall’s Lovers in the Sky: The Evolution of the Floating Bride & Groom
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Smithsonian Magazine: French Customs Detained This Marc Chagall Etching for Two Decades After an Attempted Border Crossing. Now It’s Headed for Public Display
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MutualArt.com: Marc Chagall's 5 Most Expensive Works: Capturing Surreal Color and Dreamlike Motion
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2025· 1 entry
Artnet: Marc Chagall’s Dreamlike Visions Are Coming to Munich Highlights
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2024· 1 entry
Artnet: Marc Chagall Conjures a World of Dreams and Displacement at the Albertina’s Major Retrospective
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2023· 1 entry
With the 97 sculptures made by Marc Chagall, then in 2024 with the addition of his 350 ceramics
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2022· 2 entries
France restituted The Father (Le Père) to the heirs of David Cender, a Polish-Jewish violin maker and luthier who survived Auschwitz where his wife and daughter were killed
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James Sherman wrote Chagall in School, a play concerning Chagall's leadership of the Vitebsk Art College
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2021· 1 entry
And that the restitution involved a $4 million payment to the museum
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2020· 1 entry
With Emma Rice directing a production which was live-streamed from the Bristol Old Vic and then made available for on-demand viewing, in partnership with theaters around the world
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2019· 2 entries
The New Criterion: Marc Chagall 1887–1985
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By the Association des Amis de Marc Chagall under the direction of Ambre Gauthier, in conjunction with the Archives Marc et Ida Chagall and the Marc Chagall Committee
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2016· 1 entry
Women's Wear Daily: Exhibit Focuses on Marc Chagall, Ottavio Missoni’s Colorful Worlds
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2013· 1 entry
Previously unknown works by Chagall were discovered in the stash of artworks hidden away by the son of one of Hitler's art dealers, Hildebrand Gurlitt
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1987· 1 entry
As a tribute to recognize the centennial of Chagall's birth, seven nations engaged in a special omnibus program and released postage stamps in his honor
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1985· 2 entries
Died 1985-03-28.
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Just before Chagall's death
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1982· 1 entry
The Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden organized a retrospective exhibition which later traveled to Denmark
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Arts (1981).
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1978· 2 entries
At the age of 91, Chagall created the first window and eight more followed
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Began creating windows for St Stephan's church in Mainz, Germany
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1977· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1977).
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The government of France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur
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The city of Jerusalem bestowed upon him the Yakir Yerushalayim (Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem) award
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1975).
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1973· 3 entries
Israel released a 12-stamp set with images of the stained-glass windows that he created for the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center Synagogue; each window was made to signify one of the "Twelve Tribes of Israel"
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Traveled to the Soviet Union, his first visit back since he left in 1922
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Israel released a 12-stamp set with images of the stained-glass windows
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1969· 3 entries
Israel produced a stamp depicting his King David painting
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The widow Erna Menzel sued the US art collector Albert A
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Work began on the museum, named Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall
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1967· 3 entries
Dedicated a stained-glass window to John D
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And saw the church for the first time, he exclaimed "C'est magnifique
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The Louvre in Paris exhibited 17 large-scale paintings and 38 gouaches, under the title of "Message Biblique", which he donated to the nation of France on condition that a museum was to be built for them in Nice
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1964· 2 entries
Chagall created a stained-glass window, entitled Peace, for the UN in honor of Dag Hammarskjöld, the UN's second secretary general who was killed in an airplane crash in Northern Rhodesia in 1961
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Repainted the ceiling of the Paris Opera using 2,400 square feet (220 m2) of canvas
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1963· 3 entries
Chagall was commissioned to paint the new ceiling for the Paris Opera (Palais Garnier), a majestic 19th-century building and national monument
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While visiting the US, he discussed some of those impressions
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France issued a stamp of his painting, The Married Couple of the Eiffel Tower
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1962· 1 entry
Chagall described his feelings about the windows:
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1961· 1 entry
The windows were exhibited in Paris and then the Museum of Modern Art in New York
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1960· 3 entries
Awarded Erasmus Prize (1960).
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Began creating stained glass windows for the synagogue of Hebrew University's Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem
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Brandeis University awarded Marc Chagall an honorary degree in Laws, at its 9th Commencement
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1954· 1 entry
Was engaged as set decorator for Robert Helpmann's production of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Le Coq d'Or at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, but he withdrew
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1951· 1 entry
As part of a memorial book dedicated to eighty-four Jewish artists who were killed by the Nazis in France, he wrote a poem entitled "For the Slaughtered Artists: 1950", which inspired paintings such as the Song of David
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1950· 2 entries
“When I painted Christ's parents I was thinking of my own parents. The bearded man is the Child's father. He is my father. [Chagall stated this in 1950]”
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“For the Slaughtered Artists: 1950”
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1945· 1 entry
Was also commissioned to design the sets and costumes for Stravinsky's Firebird
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1943· 1 entry
Current events began to interest him more, and this was represented by his art, where he painted subjects including the Crucifixion and scenes of war
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1941· 1 entry
Chagall was awarded the Carnegie Prize third prize in 1939 for "Les Fiancés"
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Carnegie Prize (1939).
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1937· 1 entry
About twenty thousand works from German museums were confiscated as "degenerate" by a committee directed by Joseph Goebbels
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1931· 1 entry
Marc Chagall and his family traveled to Tel Aviv on the invitation of Meir Dizengoff
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1924· 1 entry
Travelled to Brittany and painted La fenêtre sur l'Île-de-Bréhat
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1923· 1 entry
Chagall left Moscow to return to France
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1921· 1 entry
Worked as an art teacher along with his friend sculptor Isaac Itkind in a Jewish boys' shelter in suburban Malakhovka, which housed young refugees orphaned by pogroms
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1918· 2 entries
But the Russian Civil War continued, and famine spread
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Had displaced nearly a million Jews and destroyed most of what remained of the provincial shtetl culture that had defined life for most Eastern European Jews for centuries
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1915· 1 entry
Chagall began exhibiting his work in Moscow, first exhibiting his works at a well-known salon and in 1916 exhibiting pictures in St
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1914· 1 entry
While living in Russia, under the inspiration of the theatrical designer and artist Léon Bakst
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1910· 1 entry
Chagall relocated to Paris to develop his artistic style
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1906· 1 entry
Moved to Saint Petersburg, which was then the capital of the Russian Empire and the center of the country's artistic life, with famous art schools
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1887· 3 entries
Born 1887-07-14.
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Into a Jewish family near Vitebsk, today in Belarus, but at that time in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire
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Into a Jewish family in Lyozna, near the city of Vitebsk, Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, or in Vitebsk
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