BIOGRAPPHY
Marc Chagall {Shagal, Mark (Zakharovich);
Shagal, Moses} (b Vitebsk [now Viciebsk],
Belarus’, 7 July 1887; d Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, 28
March 1985). French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, designer, sculptor,
ceramicist and writer of Belarussian birth. A prolific artist, Chagall
excelled in the European tradition of subject painting and distinguished
himself as an expressive colourist. His work is noted for its consistent use
of folkloric imagery and its sweetness of colour, and it is characterized by
a style that, although developed in the years before World War I, underwent
little progression throughout his long career. Though he preferred to be
known as a Belarussian artist, following his exile from the Soviet Union in
1923 he was recognized as a major figure of the Ecole de Paris, especially
in the later 1920s and the 1930s. In his last years he was regarded as a
leading artist in stained glass.
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