THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, April 5, 1985

OBITUARIES

Artist Chagall Left
Legacy In Paintings

Paris (JTA) — Marc Chagall,
the Jewish painter considered the
last surviving master of this cen-
tury, died March 28 at age 97.
Mr. Chagall, who had designed
the stained-glass windows and
the tapestries at the Paris Opera
and Hadassah Hospital in
Jerusalem, will be remembered,
however, for his eerie, dream-like
portrayals of life in his native city
of Vitebsk at the turn of the cen-
tury.
Mr. Chagall was the master of a
world of fiddlers playing on the
roofs of the snow-covered isbas, of
lovers floating in the skies and old
men and cows sitting cross legged
on pale blue clouds.
Mr. Chagall was born July 7,
1887 in a relatively poor Jewish
family. His father was a
fishmonger, with Chassidic tradi-
tions in Vitebsk. At 20 he left for
St. Petersburg to study painting
at the imperial academy and in
1910 he left for France.
A few years later he returned to
Russia to marry his childhood
sweetheart Beila Resenfeld whom
he later portrayed hundreds of
times as the fiance floating in the
skies. Till her death in 1944 she
was to remain his favorite model.
In Russia, he first headed the
Vitebesk Art Academy to which
he was appointed by the newly es-
tablished Bolshevik government.
The Bolsheviks quickly dismissed

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him finding his art not suffi-
ciently "realistic" in what was to
be the Communist style. Mr.
Chagall left for Moscow where he
painted the murals of the Jewish
Theater.
Of major importance, he was to
say later; was is trip to Palestine
in 1931. He went at the request of
a French editor who wated him to
illustrate the book of prophets.
The Bible was to remain, how-
ever, as his main influence till the
end.
In 1973, 42 years after this trip,
the French minister for cultural
affairs, Andre Malraux, inaugu-
rated the Chagall Biblical
Museum in Nice in which most of
the paintings with a Biblical mes-
sage are on view.
Mr. Chagall fled the Nazi occu-
pation and arrived in New York in
1941 where he painted some of
America's most famous theater
decor especially the settings for
Igor Stravinsky's Firebird in
1942.
After the war he returned to
France, first to Paris than to the
south. It was during this period
that he drew the tapestries which
decorate the Knesset building in
Jerusalem. The stained-glass
windows at the Paris Opera, the
murals at the New York Met-
ropolitan Opera and in 1974 the
stained glass at the Reims
Cathedral. In 1977, he was the
first living painter to have an ex-
hibition of his works at the Paris
Louvre Museum.

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Born in Detroit, Mr. Fisher
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