Marc Chagall

Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian and French artist of Jewish origin. He studied under Yehuda Pen, and later with Nicholas Roerich and Léon Bakst in Saint Petersburg.

Between 1911 and 1913, he lived in Paris at the famous artists’ residence “La Ruche” (“The Beehive”).

After the Revolution, he worked as a teacher and founded the Vitebsk City Museum and the Vitebsk Art School.