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Marc Chagall
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Marc Chagall 1887 - 1985
Marc Chagall was born on July the 7th, 1887 in Vitebsk.(More) His father was a salesman of herring. There were eight children in his family, Marc Chagall was the first-born. He got his primary education at cheder (Judaic primary school). In autumn, 1900 Marc Chagall went to the town's four-year trade school. At the age of 17 he left this school. At that time M. Chagall got greatly interested in painting. The famous Vitebsk artist Juriy (Judel) Pen admitted the young man in his studio. Marc Chagall attended the studio for only two months where he copied plaster heads and ornaments according his teacher's instructions. Despite the short course of studies he adored his teacher up to the last days of his life.
For many years Marc Chagall stayed in France. In 1941 he came to USA happily kept out of Nazi way. When Marc Chagall learned that Vitebsk was completely ruined and lost nearly all its population during the Second World War he published in one of US newspapers. Vitebsk streets and squares, houses and lovers are present in many pictures of Marc Chagall. In 1973, when he addressed a meeting at his exhibition opening in the Tretjakov gallery in Moscow, he said,
During his long life (he died at the age of 98) Marc Chagall experienced a lot of: failure and success, poverty and richness, indifference and the world fame. But he was deprived of only one thing - acknowledgment in his motherland. It caused him much suffering. But times flies and in January, 1991 the first Marc Chagall Festival took place in Vitebsk. In June, 1992 the monument to Marc Chagall was erected in his native Pokrovskaja street and a memorial inscription was done on the wall of his house. Marc Chagall plain-air and musical festivals are held in Vitebsk annually as well.
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