The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao hosts an exhibition exploring the roots of Marc Chagall’s style
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the BBVA Foundation present ‘Chagall: The Breakthrough Years, 1911–1919’, a selection of more than 80 paintings and drawings from the early career of a unique artist, whose seemingly simple universe conceals a complex reality where opposing worlds intertwine. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Basel, will be open to the public from 1 June to 2 September.
31 May, 2018
Born in 1887 to a Hasidic Jewish family in the small town of Vitebsk, then under the control of the Russian czars, Marc Chagall grew up in a very confined world, where access to Russian culture and art was limited by his own community and the government policy of relegating Jews to ghettos and denying them basic rights. Even so, the young Marc Chagall soon made a break with convention, securing a place in a Russian school, studying art with Yehuda Pen in Vitebsk, and later moving to St. Petersburg, a major city which Jews could only enter with a special permit.