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Marc Chagall

1887 - 1985

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Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist. 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 fine art prints. Chagall was born in 1887, into a Jewish family near Vitebsk, today in Belarus, but at that time in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marc Chagall is the 35th most popular painter (down from 33rd in 2019), the most popular biography from Belarus (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Painter.

Marc Chagall is most famous for his paintings of Jewish life in Russia and Eastern Europe.

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Among painters, Marc Chagall ranks 35 out of 2,023. Before him are Édouard Manet, Eugène Delacroix, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Amedeo Modigliani, and Joan Miró. After him are Jan van Eyck, Edgar Degas, Masaccio, Jacques-Louis David, Tintoretto, and Gustave Courbet.

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Among people born in 1887, Marc Chagall ranks 5. Before him are Le Corbusier, Chiang Kai-shek, Erwin Schrödinger, and Bernard Montgomery. After him are Charles I of Austria, Erich von Manstein, Padre Pio, Marcel Duchamp, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Ernst Röhm, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. Among people deceased in 1985, Marc Chagall ranks 1. After him are Enver Hoxha, Konstantin Chernenko, Yul Brynner, Heinrich Böll, Charles Francis Richter, Macfarlane Burnet, Orson Welles, Rodney Robert Porter, Italo Calvino, Fernand Braudel, and Carl Schmitt.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Marc Chagall ranks 1 out of 368. After him are Shimon Peres (1923), Lev Vygotsky (1896), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Menachem Begin (1913), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Chaim Weizmann (1874), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Simon Kuznets (1901), and Chaim Soutine (1893).

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Among PAINTERS In Belarus

Among painters born in Belarus, Marc Chagall ranks 1. After him are Chaim Soutine (1893), Léon Bakst (1866), Władysław Strzemiński (1893), January Suchodolski (1797), Kazimierz Alchimowicz (1840), and Maja Berezowska (1893).

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