Marc Chagall
First and last name
Marc Chagall
Date of birth
1887, Lozna
Date of death
1985, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Marc Chagall was a painter and printmaker of Jewish origin with Russian and French citizenship. He is recognised as a leading representative of Cubism and Internationalism in painting. In 1906, he began his studies at the School of the Tsar's Society for the Propagation of Art with Nikolai Roerich, and then from 1908 to 1910 at the private school of Yelizaveta Zwanceva with Leon Bakst. In 1910 Marc Chagall received a scholarship and went to Paris, where he became associated with the milieu around Montparnasse. During the 1917 revolution, he became commissioner of fine arts in the Vitebsk region and also founded the Academy of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. Because of his background and the subject matter of his art, he had to leave Russia and stayed in Berlin. He stayed in France until 1941 and then went to the USA and settled in New York, but in 1948 he returned to France, where he lived until the end of his days.
