Marc Chagall – Russian-Jewish artist, a European modernist painter
The 20th-century European modernist, figurative artist, Mark Zakharovich Shagal, or Marc Chagall was born Moshe Shagal on July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk, Belarus, then part of the Russian Federation. Marc, the oldest of nine children, came from a Russian Jewish family. His father, Khatskl (Zakhar) Shagal, worked for a herring merchant and his mother, Feige-Ite, ran a small grocery store. […]
Recent Comments