Marc Chagall

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Marc Chagall was a pioneering 20th-century Russian-French artist known for his dreamlike, color-rich paintings that blend elements of Cubism, Fauvism, and Surrealism with themes from Jewish folklore and village life.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf modern artist
painter
person
printmaker
stained-glass artist
birthDate 1887-07-07
birthName Moishe Shagal
Moïche Zakharovitch Chagalov NERFINISHED
birthPlace Liozna
Russian Empire
near Vitebsk
present-day Belarus
child Ida Chagall NERFINISHED
citizenship France
Russian Empire
deathDate 1985-03-28
deathPlace France
Saint-Paul-de-Vence NERFINISHED
describedAs pioneering 20th-century Russian-French artist
ethnicity Jewish
field drawing
illustration
painting
printmaking
stage design
stained glass
influenced 20th-century Jewish artists
modern figurative painters
influencedBy Cubism
Fauvism
Hasidic Jewish culture
Russian folk art
knownFor Jewish folklore themes
depictions of shtetl life
dreamlike imagery
vivid color
language French
Russian
Yiddish
movement Cubism
Fauvism
Modernism
Surrealism
name Marc Chagall
nationality French
Russian
notableWork America Windows
Birthday
Ceiling of the Opéra Garnier
I and the Village
Jerusalem Windows
Paris Through the Window
The Fiddler
The Green Violinist
White Crucifixion
religion Judaism
residence Berlin
New York City
Paris
Saint Petersburg
Saint-Paul-de-Vence NERFINISHED
Vitebsk
spouse Bella Rosenfeld
Valentina Brodsky NERFINISHED


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