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Chagall also painted murals for a Kamerny Theater venue which was then renamed “Chagall's Little Box.”

For most of 1921, Chagall taught a settlement of Jewish war orphans in Moscow’s Malakhovka suburb.

 

[1] A. Romm, “O mouzeïnom stroïtelstve i Vitebskom mouzéié sovremennogo iskousstva” [On museum building and Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art], Iskusstvo [Art], n° 2-3, April-May 1921, pp. 6-7.

1922-1923

In early 1922, Chagall left Malakhovka and prepared to go abroad.

In order to complete his military service, Chagall worked for Bella’s brother, Jacob Rosenfeld, who was serving as head of the military-industrial complex. After a year of living with his daughter, Ida, Marc started seeing Virginia Haggard; their relationship lasted seven years. However, Bakst apparently put an end to this collaboration.

Chagall displayed two paintings at the Zvantseva School exhibition, held at the offices of Apollon magazine: The Death and Peasant Eating.

1911

In the winter, Chagall returned to St.

Petersburg and moved in with Goldberg. He also finished a number of incomplete pieces and designed paintings and works on paper that celebrated lovers, nature, and sacred Bible texts, themes that he continued to explore throughout the following years.

Virginia left Chagall for the photographer Charlies Leirens, taking along her two children to Brussels.

1952-1953

The painter came to know the Russian-born Valentina (Vava) Brodsky, whom he married on July 12, 1952.

His only chance was America. The publisher had commissioned him to produce washes and drawings using Chinese ink, based on Boccaccio’s Decameron, for the 1950 issue of his art and literature magazine Verve.

1950-1951

Chagall, captivated by Vence’s natural landscapes, purchased Les Collines, a villa with a magnificent garden filled with flowers and fruit trees.

The Chagalls left for America in May, 1941.

New York

Chagall was already known in America, he had been awarded a Carnegie Prize for "Les Fiancés", but he did not feel at ease in New York. It was time to move on.

Saint Petersburg

In 1906, he moved to the capital of Russia, Saint Petersburg, which was also the capital of all artistic activity.

When you visit the Opéra Garnier, be sure to raise your eyes to the ceiling and let the visible talents of Marc Chagall transport you to seventh heaven!

Biography

1887

Marc Chagall was born on July 7 in Vitebsk, a provincial town in the vast Russian Empire, located in present-day Belarus.

On June 15, after the opening, Chagall left Berlin and stayed briefly in Vitebsk, but was forced to stay in Russia after the war broke out. It was worth the wait. At the behest of his mother, Chagall also took on an apprenticeship retouching negatives for Abel  Miestchaninov, the brother of sculptor Oscar Miestchaninov.

1907

During the winter of 1906-1907, Chagall left for Saint-Petersburg with his friend Mekler.

It took him a year to complete. It was there that he casually discovered art. His art was influenced by the French avant-garde movement, to which he added his vivid Belarus colours. The artist’s studio is a pivotal place between outside and inside worlds, materialized by the window itself. 33.

The ceiling of the Opéra Garnier

Admire the Chagall's frescoes, painted on the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier 

The ceiling of the Opéra Garnier was completely renovated and re-imagined in 1964 at the urging of Minister of Culture André Malraux.

He travelled to Palestine where he felt instantly at home. Walden, who was editor of Der Sturm magazine and owned the gallery of the same name, invited Chagall to take part in the first German Autumn Exhibition.

marc chagall biography paris opera

Chagall subsequently decided he would pay homage to fourteen composers, including Debussy, Ravel, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Mozart.

1966-1967

In 1966, Chagall and Vava left Vence and settled in La Colline, a house they’d had built at Saint-Paul-de-Vence. His naturalization decree was published in the Official Journal on June 13, 1937.

In 1937, with the mood becoming increasingly tense due to growing antisemitism, the painter revisited the theme of revolution.