The Marc Chagall Museum ( be, Віцебскі музей Марка Шагала) is a museum dedicated to the painter
Marc Chagall, in his hometown of
Vitebsk
Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest c ...
,
Belarus
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. The museum was founded by the decision of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee on October 23, 1991.
The total area is ; it has five exposition and four exhibition halls. The museum is housed in two buildings, the Marc Chagall Art Center and the Marc Chagall House-Museum.
Marc Chagall Art Center
The Marc Chagall Art Center, at 2 Putna Street, was opened in 1992. Exhibitions of graphic works by Chagall from the museum's collection are held here: woodcuts, etchings, aquatints, a series of illustrations of
Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls" (1923-1925), a series of color lithographs from 1956 and 1960 on the theme of the Bible, a cycle of colour lithographs entitled ''The 12 tribes of Israel'' (1960) and other of his works. The museum also houses a collection of printed graphics by European avant-garde artists such as
Joan Miró,
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
and
Fernand Léger. The Art Center has a scientific library dedicated to the works of Chagall and other avant-garde artists, which has more than 3500 volumes.
Marc Chagall House-Museum
The Marc Chagall House-Museum, at 11 Pokrovskaya Street, was opened in 1997 and is located in the house built by the artist's father in the early 1900s. Here Chagall spent his youth; he wrote about this period in the autobiographical book ''My Life''. The household items of the townspeople of the 19th and 20th centuries are shown as well as copies of archival documents and works relating to his years of life and his family's life in Vitebsk.
As of 2021, the nearby synagogue where Chagall and his family were congregants, the Great Lubavitch Synagogue, is open to investors interested in restoring the dilapidated building.
Books
* Шишанов В. А. Витебский музей современного искусства: история создания и коллекции. 1918–1941. Минск: Медисонт, 2007. — 144
* Апчинская Н. Марк Шагал. Портрет художника. М., 1995
* ''Шишанов В.'
К вопросу о «первом опыте обращения к творчеству Шагала в местной печати»// Бюллетень Музея Марка Шагала. 2004. No. 2(12). С.12-16.
* Шишанов, В. «Эти молодые люди были ярыми социалистами…». Участники революционного движения в окружении Марка Шагала и Беллы Розенфельд / В.А. Шишанов // Бюллетень Музея Марка Шагала. – 2005. – No.13. – С. 64 – 7
* Шишанов В. Об утраченном портрете Марка Шагала работы Юрия Пэна // Бюллетень Музея Марка Шагала. 2006. No. 14. С. 110–11
* Шишанов В. А
Транслингвистическая порча[Рец. на книги: Шагал Б. Горящие огни: Пер. с фр. Н.Мавлевич. М.: Текст, 2001. 351 с.: ил. Шагал Б. Горящие светильники: Пер. с нем. Г.Снежинская. СПб.: Лимбус Пресс, 2001. 224 с.] // Бюллетень Музея Марка Шагала. 2002. No. 2(8). С.17-19.
* Шишанов В
Художественная жизнь Витебска на страницах изданий «Известия Витгубисполкома совучдепов», «Школа и революция», «Юный марсиянин»// Шагаловский сборник. Вып. 2. Материалы VI—IX Шагаловских чтений в Витебске (1996—1999). Витебск: Музей М.Шагала, 2004. С.121-124.
* ''Шишанов В''
Материалы о Ю. М. Пэне в РГАЛИ/ В. Шишанов. // Малевич. Классический авангард. Витебск — 11:
льманах / ред. Т. Котович — Минск: Экономпресс, 2009. — С.42-55.
* ''Шишанов В.'
Марк Шагал: этюды к биографии художника по архивным делам// Шагаловский сборник. Вып. 3. Материалы X – XIV Шагаловских чтений в Витебске (2000-2004). Минск: «Рифтур», 2008. С.171–175.
* ''Родити Э.'
Диалоги об искусстве: Марк Шагал/ Вступление и комментарии В. Шишанов. Перевод с немецкого А.Белодед// Бюллетень Музея Марка Шагала. 2002. No. 1 (7). — С.6—13.
* SHISHANOV, Valery. SOME LINES FROM THE LIFE OF MARC CHAGALL // Mishpoha. 2010. No.26. P. 46 - 50
Музей Марка Шагала в Ницце — Le Musee National Message Biblique Marc Chagall («Библейское послание Марка Шагала»)*
ttp://www.interlit2001.com/chagall-3.htm Людмила ХМЕЛЬНИЦКАЯ. Марк Шагал в художественной культуре Беларуси 1920-х — 1990-х годов.Мерет Мейер. Фрагмент биографии Марка Шагала.* Шишанов, В. А. «Двойной портрет с бокалом вина» – в поисках источников сюжета картины Марка Шагала / В. А. Шишанов // Марк Шагал и Петербург. К 125-летию со дня рождения художника / науч. ред. и сост. : О.Л. Лейкинд, Д.Я. Северюхин. – С.-Петербург : Издательство «Европейский Дом», 2013.– С. 167–17
See also
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List of single-artist museums
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Musée Marc Chagall
References
External links
Official site of Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk, Belarus*
Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art
Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art (russian: Витебский Музей Современного Искусства) was an art museum in Vitebsk, Belarus organized in 1918 by Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich and Alexander Romm. In 1921, it exhibited 1 ...
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