Paintings From The French Painter and Artist Marc Chagall

MARC CHAGALL
1887-1985

Marc Chagall was a French painter born in Russia. His family was Jewish and of very modest
means, and he was raised in a ghetto. His mother encouraged his art and struggled to get him
into a St. Petersburg art school. In 1910 he journeyed to Paris to be closer to what he
considered to be the 'meca of art'. Chagall was mostly a colourist and was very much interested
in the Simultaneist vision of Robert Delaunay and the Luminists of the Section d'Or.
Chagall returned to Russia in 1914 and married in 1915. An appointment to Commissar
for Fine Arts in 1917 got him involved in several projects for a local academy. In addition,
he worked in the Jewish Theatre and studied engraving in Berlin, before returning to Paris
in 1923. At one time, he illustrated La Fontaine's Fables, Gogol's Dead Souls and the Bible.
There was a short period of Surrealism, but he returned very quickly to colour as a governor,
and combined realistic and imaginary elements. Chagall's commissions included the Assy
baptistery (1957), the cathedral of Metz (1960), the cathedral of Rheims (1974), the
Hebrew University Medical Synagogue in Jerusalem (1960), and the Paris
Opera (1963). In July 1973 The Musee' Chagall was dedicated in Nice.
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