Biography of Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall was born in Liozno, near Vitebsk, now in Belarus, on July 7 1887. In those days Vitebsk was a major cultural center. Chagall started studying painting with the local artist Yehuda Pen. Later Chagall founded a Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art and an Art School in Vitebsk.

After he left Vitebsk Chagall lived in St.Petersburg and Moscow. In 1923 moved to Paris and in 1937 he became a French citizen, but had to leave France during the Nazi occupation. He spent some time in Israel and died in France in 1985.

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