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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall is born in 1887 in Vitebsk (Russia), elder of a Jewish family of 9 children. In 1910, he got a working scholarship from a patron which allowed him to join Paris. He had his first exhibition at the "Salon des independants". In 1914, his firts personal exhibition is organized in Berlin with La Galerie der Sturm. He came back to Russia, in 1917 the revolution is here, he became president of the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Vitebesk. In 1923, he went back to Paris, met Vollard who will order him a lot of work. Since that time, his life is marked out by neww meetings: Rouault, Vlaminck, and Bonnard. In 1926, he made his first exhibition in the United States. In 1930, Vollard ordered him a work on the Bile, which will be finished only in 1956. During the next 35 years he produced a huge work (paintings, frescoes, decorations, etchings, mosaics, stained glasses, etc.) and received so many compliments and was respected as one of the most important artist of the XX century. Chagall died in Saint Paul de Vence (France) on March 28th, 1988. |
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