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Marc Chagall [a] (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985 [b]) was a Jewish Belarusian and French artist. [c] An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and ...
Mr. and Mrs Menzel fled the Nazis in 1941, going from Belgium to the United States. When they returned to the apartment after the end of WWII, they discovered a receipt from the Einsatzstab Rosenberg, a Nazi looting organization, for a painting by Marc Chagall called variously L'Echelle de Jacob or Le Paysan et l'Echelle or The Peasant and the Ladder or Jacob's Ladder that the Nazis had seized.
About 200–300 pieces are suspected of being looted art, some of which may have been exhibited in the degenerate art exhibition held by the Nazis before World War II in several large German cities. [75] The collection contains works by Marc Chagall, Otto Dix, and Henri Matisse, Renoir, and Max Liebermann among many others. [75]
This article lists artworks produced by Marc Chagall (6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985), a painter who is associated with the modern movements after impressionism. The listing follows marcchagallart.net [1] and Harris, The Life and Works of Chagall, [2] except where noted.
Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio is a gouache painting by the Russian-born artist Marc Chagall, from 1945. The 51 by 35.5 cm (20-inch by 14-inch) work was created by Chagall in response to the devastation brought by the Holocaust. It references Jesus Christ, like some others of his paintings of this time.
Before Nazis took it over during World War II, thousands of Jews — including painters Max Ernst and Marc Chagall — used it to flee by train to Lisbon before heading to the United States ...
Before World War II, Vitebsk had a significant Jewish population: according to Russian census of 1897, out of the total population of 65,900, Jews constituted 34,400 (around 52%). [7] The most famous of its Jewish natives was the painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985).
Bella Rosenfeld Chagall (Russian: Бэлла Розенфельд-Шагал, Yiddish: בעלאַ ראָזענפעלד) (14 December 1889 [1] – 2 September 1944) was a Jewish Russian writer born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire, nowadays Belarus, and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall.