1887
Marc Chagall is born on Juli 7th in Lyozno, a village near Vitebsk, Russia, as the oldest of nine children of a Jewish family.
1906
Studies at Jehuda Pen’s school of painting in Vitebsk.
1907
Attends the School of the Imperial Society of the Encouragement of the Arts.
1908
Pupil of Léon Bakst.
1909
Meets Bella Rosenfeld, his future wife.
1910
Leaves Russia for Paris where he settles in a studio.
1911
Participates in the Salon des Indépendants.
Meets and befriends Apollinaire, Cendrars, Jacob, Delaunay, Léger, Modigliani and Archipenko.
1913
Chagall is introduced to Herbert Walden by Appolinaire.
1914
First exhibition in the gallery „Der Sturm“ in Berlin. Returns to Vitebsk and is trapped by the war.
1915
Marries Bella Rosenfeld, they move to St. Petersburg.
1916
Birth of daughter Ida.
Important exhibition in Moscow.
1917
After the October Revolution returns to Vitebsk.
1918
Appointed Commisar for the Arts in Vitebsk. Founds an art academie.
1920
Moves to Moscow.
1921
Begins to write his autobiography Mein Leben (My life).
1922
Chagall flees Russia.
Learns the execution of etching at Hermann Struck in Berlin.
Paul Cassirer commissions Chagall to illustrate My Life with 20 etchings.
First lithographs and woodcuts.
1923
Returns to Paris.
Chagall is commisioned by Vollard to execute etchings for Gogols The Dead Souls.
1924
First retrospective in Paris.
1925
Vollard commissions Chagall to illustrate La Fontane’s Fables.
Works on the etchings for The Seven Deadly Sins.
1926
First exhibition in New York.
1928
Spends most of his time engraving the Fables (until 1930).
1931
Travels to Palestine, commissioned by Vollard to illustrate the Bible.
1932
Visits Holland to study Rembrandt’s graphic opus.
1933
Retrospective in Switzerland at the Kunsthalle, Basel.
Chagall’s paintings are burned by the Nazis in Mannheim, Germany.
1937
Becomes French citizen.
1939
Awarded first prize by the Carnegie Foundation.
The outbreak of the war interrupts the work on the etchings for the Bible, which was started in 1931. 66 of the altogether 105 plates are etched.
1941
Travels to the U.S. invited by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1944
His wife Bella dies.
1945
Gets to know Virginia McNeil.
1946
Birth of his son David.
First color lithographs for Arabian Nights.
1948
Returns to France.
Awarded the Grand Prix de Gravure at the Venice Biennale.
1950
Meets Fernand Mourlot and Charles Sorlier.
Begins a long-lasting collaboration at the Atelier Mourlot.
Moves to Vence, first ceramics.
1951
Second visit to Israel.
1952
Virginia McNeil leaves Chagall.
Marries Valentina (Vava) Brodsky.
1954
Starts to work on the lithographs for Daphnis and Chloé.
1956
Bible is published by Tériade.
17 color lithographs for Revue Verve No. 33/34.
1957
Exhibition of his graphic work in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
1958
Stained-glass windows for the cathedral of Metz.
1960
Stained-glass windows for the synagogue of the Hadassah-University clinic, Jerusalem
24 colour lithographs for Revue Verve No. 37/38.
1963
24 colour lithographs for The Story of the Exodus.
1967
Tériade publishes The Circus with 39 lithographs, 24 in color.
Exhibition in the Louvre.
1968
Poèmes is published by Cramer with Chagall’s sole colour woodcuts.
Further stained-glass windows.
1969
Foundation stone laid for the Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice.
1970
Retrospective of his graphic work in Paris.
Stained-glass windows for the Fraumunster, Zürich.
1973
Travels to Moscow and Leningrad.
Exhibition of his lithographs at the Tretjakow-Gallery, Moscow.
1974
Exhibition of his original prints in Dresden und East Berlin.
1976
Travelling exhibition in Japan.
1977
Awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d’Honneur. Becomes honorary citizen of Jerusalem.
1978
Unveiling the stained-glass windows in Mayence, Germany.
1979
32 color etchings for Psaumes de David.
1981
Retrospective of his original prints in Paris.
1982
Exhibition of his illustrated books at Patrik Cramer, Genf.
1984
Retrospectives in the Centre Pompidou, Paris and in the Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
1985
Last lithograph Towards another Light.
Marc Chagall dies on March 28th in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
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| Bible I |
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| Celui qui dit |
| Bible |
| Daphnis und Chloé |
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