Persecution, Exile, Confrontation; Marc Chagall the Painter of Love and Light - Art History School

Why is Marc Chagall known as the painter of Love? Chagall an orthodox Jew, was born in Vitebsk, Russia (now Belarus) on the 7th of July 1887 as Moshe Segal. He was the eldest of 9 children. In 1910 Chagall moved to Paris, where he changed his name to the more French sounding Marc Chagall and in 1911 moved into his own studio in La Ruche, the legendary Parisian artist colony. On 25th of July 1915 Marc Chagall married Bella Rosenfeld in Vitebsk. By 1919 Marc Chagall had set up the Vitebsk School of Fine Arts with artists Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky. But things did not go well and Chagall soon upped and left. Shortly afterwards, Malevich renamed the Art School the Suprematist Academy. By the 1930’s Marc Chagall’s paintings were selling well. In 1933 a number of Chagall’s paintings were publicly burnt by the Nazis, outside of the Mannheim Art Gallery. In 1937, on the orders of the Nazi regime, all Chagall’s works were removed from German museums, three were shown in the notorious Degenerate Art Exhibition in 1937. Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, Chagall moved his family to the United States. In New York Pierre Matisse, the son of artist Henri Matisse, organised Chagall’s first exhibition in America, in November 1941, at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York. In the late 1940’s exhibitions were held of Chagall’s work in New York, London, Zurich and Bern in Switzerland. They were all hugely successful. But Marc Chagall longed to return to France, in 1948 he left America for good. In 1950 he moved to Vence in the South of France and intermittently met up with Matisse and Picasso both of whom had studios nearby. In 1951 he married Valentina Brodsky. Their marriage gave him new energy later he visited Chartres Cathedral to study medieval stained-glass window painting. This inspired him and in 1959 he created stained glass windows for the north apse of Metz Cathedral in France. 1964 saw Marc Chagall complete the window of the Good Samaritan for the memorial to John D Rockefeller Junior and the Peace window for the United Nations building in New York. Marc Chagall died at his home in St Paul de Vence at the age of 97, on the 28th of March 1985. Interested in DRAWING? Check out my drawing channel: Please consider subscribing to this channel: And supporting this channel on Patreon, many thanks! Would you like me to critique your drawing? Sign up here:- https: Want this video in your own language? Check out my video to see how: For drawing and painting art tutorials designed for beginners - visit my website: - Follow our Facebook Page: Follow our Twitter page: PATREON: I’d like to thank the following patrons whose support in the making of this video is much appreciated: Martyn Lawrence Clarke-Smith, Richard Chapple, Ivan Gilbert Rappaport, Farida Grewal, Denise Trietsch, Wei Tai, Sandra McFarland, Emily Liss, Piroska Barják, Zul Mitha, Stein Harald Os, Anuradha Reddy, Tina Valentine, Anita Ehler, Cecilia E Nuyianes and Nicolae Opris Picture Credits: Chagall image - Credits: Israel Museum Collection Chagall © Chagall Image - Carl Van Vechten Knesset Photos SIAE Photo by Nizzan Cohen CC BY-SA 4.0 Music Credits: Lachaim by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence () Source: Artist: