Art · Literature · 1887–1985
Born: 7 July 1887 · Died: 28 March 1985 · Age at death: 97
Marc Chagall died aged 97. He was born on 7 July 1887 and died on 28 March 1985.
Russian-born French artist known for his colourful modernist paintings
Did you know?In the 1960s, he designed and painted a massive new ceiling for the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris.
Marc Chagall painted the world of his Jewish childhood in Vitebsk as a dream. Cows, fiddlers and lovers float over rooftops. He mixed folk art with the bold colour of Paris modernism. He never fully belonged to any movement. He fled Nazi-occupied France to New York. He later filled churches, synagogues and opera houses with colour. Picasso said that when Matisse died, Chagall would be the only one who understood colour.
Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry.
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Russian-French artist, born 1887
Marc Chagall was born in Liozna on 7 July 1887.
He painted floating lovers and village scenes from Vitebsk.
He designed the Paris Opéra ceiling in 1964.
He made stained glass windows for churches and synagogues.
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Did you know?His Jerusalem Windows show the twelve tribes of Israel.
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