![]() ![]() ![]() "Chagall returned to Vitebsk in 1914, where he was caught by the outbreak of the First World War. Essentially a colourist, Chagall was interested in the Simultaneist vision of Robert Delaunay and the Luminists of the Section d'Or. His Slav Expressionism was tinged with the influence of Daumier, Jean-François Millet, the Nabis and the Fauves. He was a tenant at La Ruche, where he had Modigliani and Soutine for neighbours. Returning to Vitebsk, he became engaged to Bella Rosenfeld (whom he married twelve years later), then, in 1910, set off for Paris, 'the Mecca of art'. Very early in life he was encouraged by his mother to follow his vocation and she managed to get him into a St Petersburg art school. ![]() Born to a humble Jewish family in the ghetto of a large town in White Russia, Chagall passed a childhood steeped in Hasidic culture. "Marc Chagall: Russian-born French painter. Text from " ART20, The Thames and Hudson Multimedia Dictionary of Modern Art" See also: Marc Chagall - Online catalogue of the printed graphic work ![]()
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