Sarrebourg marc chagall biography

Biography

1887

Marc Chagall was born on July 7 in Vitebsk, a provincial town in the vast Russian Empire, located in present-day Belarus. Moyshe Segal—his real name—was born into a modest Jewish family. He was the first of nine children (seven girls and two boys). His mother, Feïga-Ita Tchernina, sold groceries from the ground floor of their house on Pokrovskaïa street. His father, Khatskel Segal, worked as a herring pickler at a warehouse on the bank of the Dvina River in Jachnine.

The Second Half of the 1890s

Chagall attended the heder, a traditional Jewish elementary school where around ten local boys aged between three and thirteen were instructed by a tutor. He looked after them and taught them prayers and Bible passages in Hebrew. Chagall also took singing and violin lessons there. He would spend his summers in Liozno, a village around 40 kilometers from Vitebsk, where he’d be surrounded by his grandparents, uncles, aunts, and various farm animals.

1900-1905

At age thirteen, Chagall began receiving a secular Russian education at Vitebsk’s official middle school,

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List of artworks by Marc Chagall

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Title Year Location Image online[186]
Clock in the flaring sky1947 to 1950Private collection Image online[187]
Lovers near Bridge1948Private collection Image online[188]
Green Landscape1948 to 1950Minsk, Belgazprombank Image online
Still Life of Flowers1949Image online
Blue Landscape1949Image online
Clock with a Blue Wing1949Image online[192]
The Poet1949 to 1950Image in La Mariée
The Bride1950featured in the 1999 film Notting HillImage online[193]
Lovers in the Red Sky1950San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtImage online[194]
Moses Receiving the Tablets of the Law1950 to 1952Private collection Image online[195]
The Blue Circus1950London, Tate ModernImage online[196]
The Dance and The Circus1950London, Tate ModernImage online[197]
Le Ciel embrase1952 to 1954Private collection Image online[198]
Exodus1952Pr

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