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Marc Chagall (Liosno, Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint Paul de Vence). He studied in Vitebsk and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Petersburg. Read the full biography

Marc Chagall Biography

Marc Chagall (Liosno, Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint Paul de Vence). He studied in Vitebsk and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Petersburg. In 1910 he moved to Paris, entered the avant-garde artistic environment, became acquainted with Cubism and Fauvism. He becomes friends with Apollinaire and Delaunay. During the war he returned to his hometown and founded the Art Institute of which he was director until 1920, the year in which Malevich succeeded him. In the following years he worked and moved between Paris and Berlin, making trips to Europe and Palestine. In 1924 an important retrospective took place at the Kunstmuseum in Basel, but in that period, the rise of Nazism confiscated all the artist's works from German museums. In 1947 he returned to Paris and in 1949 he settled in Saint Paul de Vence, where he began to create large decorations for public structures. In 1962 he designed the stained glass windows for the synagogue of the Hassadah Medical Center in Jerusalem and for the cathedral of Metz. In 1964 he decorated the ceiling of the Paris Opera, created a mural on the facade of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, the windows of the choir and the rose window of the Framunster in Zurich and the famous large mosaic in Chicago.