Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall was a Russian-French early modernist painter and stained glass artisan celebrated for his poetic, dreamlike imagery infused with Eastern European Jewish folklore, biblical allegory, and personal romantic memories. Born in Vitebsk, he synthesized Cubist spatial fragmentation and Fauvist color with his own folkloric narratives.

Surviving the Russian Revolution and later fleeing the Holocaust to New York with the aid of Varian Fry, Chagall created monumental works across multiple media, including the monumental ceiling of the Paris Opéra Palais Garnier, monumental tapestries, and vibrant stained glass windows for the Cathedral of Reims and the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem.