Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall · Arts & Literature
Modernist painter and stained-glass artist drawing on Jewish folk life
1887, Liozna (near Vitebsk), Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1985, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Russian Empire · France · United States
Marc Chagall is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Modernist painter and stained-glass artist drawing on Jewish folk life
Marc Chagall was a leading modernist painter and stained-glass artist whose dreamlike works drew deeply on the folk life, symbols and memory of the Eastern European Jewish world he came from. His murals, theatre designs and church and synagogue windows made him one of the twentieth century's most recognizable artists. He was born into a devout Hasidic Jewish family in Vitebsk.
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Source: Britannica (born to a Hasidic Jewish family in Vitebsk)
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Modernist painter and stained-glass artist drawing on Jewish folk life
Source: Britannica (born to a Hasidic Jewish family in Vitebsk)
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