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CHAGALL Marc, born 1887 Liosno (near Vitebsk) - 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Russian painter and graphic artist. |
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| 1907 | Studied painting at St. Petersburg. | |||||||||||||
| 1910-13 | Lived in Paris. Met Modigliani, Delaunay, Gleizes and other artists. Encountered the contemporary art movements Cubism and Fauvism. | |||||||||||||
| 1914 | First solo-exhibition at Herwarth Walden's gallery 'Der Sturm' in Berlin. | |||||||||||||
| 1915 | Returned to Russia. During World War I, developed an intensely personal style in which he combined Jewish-folkloristic ideas with forms of Western avant-garde. | |||||||||||||
| 1917 | Founder and director of the School of Art in Vitebsk. Appointed, among others, Lissitzky, Pougny and Malevich as teachers. | |||||||||||||
| 1923 | After interim periods in Moscow and Berlin, went to Paris where he started doing book illustrations. | |||||||||||||
| 1925 | From 1925 the circus became a recurrent theme in his works. His figures, painted in bright colours, are often suspended in pictorial space. | |||||||||||||
| 1941 | Emigration to the United States, where he met Leger, Masson, Mondrian and Breton. | |||||||||||||
| 1946 | Major retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. | |||||||||||||
| 1947 | He moved back to France. | |||||||||||||
| 1950 | Settling in Vence. | |||||||||||||
Public commissions for church windows, ceiling-paintings, tapestries and murals. Important representative of classical Modernism, combining elements of Fauvism and Surrealism with his own formal language and brilliant coloration. |
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