Marc Chagall

Also known as Marc Zakharovich Chagall, Chagall, Mark Zakharovich Shagal, Moses Shagal, Marḳ Shagal, Marŭkkŭ Syagal, Syagal, Mark Shahal

Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)

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Marc Chagall was a Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985) known for his imaginative and colorful paintings that blended modern art movements with themes from his Jewish heritage and Eastern European roots. His distinctive style and prolific career made him one of the most influential and celebrated artists of the 20th century.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1887
Died: 1985
Works: 322

Top works

H. Leivick
Contes de Boccace
Die 96 Radierungen zu "Die toten Seelen" von Nikolaj Gogol
Hommage à Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall zum 85

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Film & TV

Acting

Known for

Геннадий Ветров. Неудержимый децибел — Self2021
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer — Self - Painter (archive footage)2019
Konstsamlaren och katastrofen2017
Chagall: Beyond the Real — Himself2003
The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art — Self1974
Chagall dans son jardin a Saint-Paul-de-Vence — Himself1970
The New Met: Countdown to Curtain — Self1966
Chagall — Himself1964
Beyond the Riviera1960
The Gift: Four Seasons Mosaic of Marc Chagall — Self

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Active from: 1887
Active to: 1985

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 9
Total plays: 59

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data
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MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
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Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,942x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,398x

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Quotes

“I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.”
“For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. That is how I understood him in 1908 when I used this figure for the first time.. .It was under the influence of the pogroms. Then I painted and drew him in pictures about ghettos, surrounded by Jewish troubles, by Jewish mothers, running terrified with little children in their arms.”
“In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very typical of me; I have selected the most modest ones for the Russian exhibition.”
“My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day of Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum..”
“The sun has only ever shone for me in France (it certainly did that!). I have got used to beating the streets of Paris, happy beyond words dreaming of a life 125 years long - with the Louvre radiant in the distance. (Chagall couldn't go back to Paris because of the outbreak of the first World War in 1914). Having ended up in the Russian provinces, >.”
“Or is all this fuss actually important for >? Oh, no, never. If things only ever originated as a result of such competition (between subject- and subjectless art) , it wouldn't be worth living among them, like an accidental, capricious toy. Clearly there is a greater, a more serene and more modest power, but we are either too lazy to live by its laws, or we have no time, or it "hurts too much".”

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Official website

Le site officiel dédié à l'artiste Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall, le site officiel consacré à l'œuvre de l'artiste, le catalogue raisonné, les dossiers de découverte et les nombreuses ressources liées à l'artiste.

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.marcchagall.com
Image: Shagal Choumoff.jpg

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Commons category: Marc Chagall
date of death: 1985-03-28
date of birth: 1887-06-24
Commons Creator page: Marc Chagall
Commons gallery: Марк Захарович Шагал
name in native language: Moishe Zakharovitch Chagalov
birth name: Moïche Zakharovitch Chagalov
P8168: 1911–12 Nemzeti Bajnokság I
pseudonym: Shagal, Moishe

Sources (15)

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Works in European collections

3 objects attributed to Marc Chagall, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Notre-Dame de Toute Grâce

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Article

Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints.

Chagall was born in 1887, into a Jewish family near Vitebsk, today in Belarus, but at that time in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During that period, he created his own mixture and style of modern art, based on his ideas of Eastern European and Jewish folklore. He spent the wartime years in Vitebsk and Petrograd, becoming one of the Russia's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art and People's Art School. He later worked in and near Moscow in difficult conditions during hard times in Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution, before leaving again for Paris in 1923. During World War II, he escaped occupied France to the United States, where he lived in New York City for seven years before returning to France in 1948.