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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc Chagall has received more than 4,129,189 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Marc Chagall is the 33rd most popular painter (up from 35th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Belarus (down from 1st 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

Among painters, Marc Chagall ranks 33 out of 2,023. Before him are Édouard Manet, Wassily Kandinsky, Hieronymus Bosch, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jan van Eyck, and Edgar Degas. After him are Jacques-Louis David, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Giotto, Joan Miró, René Magritte, and Masaccio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Marc Chagall ranks 3. Before him are Le Corbusier, and Erwin Schrödinger. After him are Marcel Duchamp, Chiang Kai-shek, Erich von Manstein, Charles I of Austria, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Padre Pio, Ernst Röhm, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, and Arthur Rubinstein. Among people deceased in 1985, Marc Chagall ranks 1. After him are Enver Hoxha, Yul Brynner, Konstantin Chernenko, Heinrich Böll, Italo Calvino, Carl Schmitt, Simone Signoret, Fernand Braudel, Orson Welles, László Bíró, and Jean Dubuffet.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Marc Chagall ranks 2 out of 368. Before him are Shimon Peres (1923). After him are Lev Vygotsky (1896), Menachem Begin (1913), Chaim Weizmann (1874), Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), 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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