Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall was born in 1887 in Vitebsk in Russia. He studied Arts at the Imperial Society of the Protection of the Arts in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

He moved to Paris and in 1912 he participated in the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne.

His first retrospective took place in 1924 at the Galerie Barbazanges-Hodebert, Paris. In 1933 the Kunsthalle Basel held a major retrospective of his work.

During World War II Chagall fled to the United States. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gave him a retrospective in 1946.

During the 1960s Chagall realized large-scale commissions at the synagogue of the Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem; Paris Opéra; United Nations building, New York; Metropolitan Opera House, New York. He got major retrospectives at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He died in 1985 in France.

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Even if Marc Chagall was considered as part of the artistic movement the Ecole de Paris, he has never been linked to any artistic trends. Indeed, his inspiration mainly came from his imagination, the dream world or even biblical references.