Marc Chagall

As a youngster, Chagall was apprenticed to the town portrait painter and then went on to St. Petersburg in 1907 where he attended the Imperial School of Fine Arts. He found the teaching poor and soon went to Paris in 1910. He remained in Pairs for four years and painted with Delaunay and Modigliani. In 1914 he had his first one-man show, in which he had a marked effect on the development of Expressionism in Germany following the war. Chagall returned to Russia in 1914 and married Bella, who is loved and celebrated in many of his paintings. In 1919 he began painting murals and designing scenery for the Moscow Theatre. In the 1920’s he did many series of etchings including The Arabian Nights and also an edition of the Bible. During the 30’s, he produced somber dramatic paintings of religious scenes depicting his deep concern with the spread of prosecution and the approach of war. In 1939 he was awarded the first prize at The Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. In 1941 he returned to the United States and stayed through 1946, designing scenery and costumes for Stravinsky’s ballets. Since the end of World War II, large retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held in museums all around the world. His work, with its imaginative and dream-like quality – unconcerned with the laws of nature. Chagall is now recognized as a forerunner of the Surrealist movement.

Marc Chagall Images:
Acrobat
Adam and Eve
Au Dessus de la Ville
Birthday
Birthday - L’ Anniversaire
Bridges Over the Seine
Champs De Mars
Claire de Lune
Couple Au Dessus De St Paul
David Et Bethsabee
Evening Enchantment
Flowers and Lovers
Green Donkey
I And The Village
I and the Village, 1911
Jardins de St.Paul, 1973
La Branche
La Joie
L’arbre De Vie 1948
Le Bouquet Ardent
L’Envol
Le Paradis (Paradise)
Les Fiances de la Tour Eiffel
Le Violiniste Bleu
Lovers & Flowers
Lovers In The Moonlight
Nature Morte Aux Fleurs
On The Roofs Of Paris
Paris Opera Ceiling
Peasant Life, 1925
Rabbi - The Pinch of Snuff
The Lovers
The Parting Of The Red Sea
The Three Candles
The Violinist
The White Window
Three Candles
View of Paris
Violoniste Bleu