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Marc Chagall

Who

Marc Chagall · Arts & Literature

What

Modernist painter and stained-glass artist drawing on Jewish folk life

When

1887, Liozna (near Vitebsk), Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1985, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

Where

Russian Empire · France · United States

Biography

Marc Chagall is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Modernist painter and stained-glass artist drawing on Jewish folk life

How & why

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)

Contributions & Sources

Modernist painter and stained-glass artist drawing on Jewish folk life

1912

Source: Britannica (born to a Hasidic Jewish family in Vitebsk)