The Poet with the Birds, Marc Chagall, 1911
Marc Chagall, portrætMarc ChagallBelarus, Frankrig, 1887–1985

The Poet with the Birds

1911 · Painting · 73.03 × 99.7 cm

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Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk, a city in present-day Belarus. The eldest son of a Jewish family, he left home at nineteen to pursue artistic training in St. Petersburg. He moved to Paris in 1910 and the following year, he painted this contemplative scene of a man daydreaming, looking up at white birds in a swirling landscape. With the new freedom Chagall found in France, his work became increasingly fantastical, anticipating Surrealist art of the 1920s and 1930s. A movement in both literature and visual art, Surrealism aimed to tap into the subconscious mind, often through dreamlike imagery.

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Hele livet
  1. autumn 1909

    Meeting Bella Rosenfeld

    In the autumn of 1909 in Vitebsk, Thea Brachman introduced Chagall to her friend Berta (Bella) Rosenfeld. The encounter proved decisive in the artist's life: Bella became his lifelong muse.

  2. 1911

    Move to Paris

    On a stipend from M. M. Vinaver he left for Paris, where he met avant-garde artists including the Delaunays, Apollinaire, and Cendrars. In Paris he began calling himself Marc for the first time; in 1912 he moved into La Ruche.

  3. 1 October 1912

    Participation in the Salon d'Automne

    He took part in the Paris Salon d'Automne, which opened on 1 October 1912 and where more than half the works were painted in a Cubist manner. The critic Tugendhold singled out Chagall's works among those of the young Russians.

  4. early 1913

    First Solo Exhibition

    In early 1913 Chagall's first solo exhibition was held at the Académie Marie Vassilieff in Paris.

  5. 1913

    Exhibition at the First German Autumn Salon

    In September 1913 Chagall's paintings were shown at the First German Autumn Salon (Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon) in Berlin, from where the artist returned to Russia.

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