Sarrebourg marc chagall biography
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- Marc Chagall is the painter of onirism and color.
- Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a Belorussian-born French artist known for his poetic, dreamlike imagery filled with rich colors.
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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
Title
Clock in the flaring sky
Lovers near Bridge
Green Landscape
Still Life of Flowers
Blue Landscape
Clock with a Blue Wing
The Poet
The Bride
Lovers in the Red Sky
Moses Receiving the Tablets of the Law
The Blue Circus
The Dance and The Circus
Le Ciel embrase
Exodus
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