Art heritage associated with Belarus in the museums of the world

Marc Chagall was born on July 7, 1887 near Vitebsk into a large family. Received a traditional religious education at home. From 1898 to 1905 he studied at a school in Vitebsk, and in 1906 he studied painting with the famous artist Yehuda Pen.

At the end of 1906 he came to Petersburg, where his teachers were L.S. Bakst, M.V. Dobuzhinsky, N.K. Roerich. In 1911 - 1914. lived in Paris.

In 1915, the artist married Bella Rosenfeld, who became his muse. In 1916, their daughter Ida was born.

In 1919, Chagall opened an art school in Vitebsk. In 1920-1922. in Moscow, the artist creates a series of large wall panels for the Jewish Chamber Theater.

Since 1923, Chagall and his family settled in Paris, where in the colony of artists "The Beehive" became close to the avant-garde. In the same year, the book of his memoirs "My Life" was published in Berlin. In 1933, the Nazis who came to power in Germany publicly burned the artist's paintings. In 1937, the artist became a French citizen. In 1941, he and his family fled the war in the United States, where Bella died suddenly in 1944.

Since 1955, the artist has created a large number of monumental sketches, compositions of which have adorned buildings of various religious denominations.

Marc Chagall died on March 28, 1985 in the town of Saint-Paul-de-Vence in the Alpes-Maritimes (France) at the age of 97.