Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall was born Moishe Shagal on July  7, 1887.
At 19 Marc entered the private School of drawing and painting. His early pieces were often of the town where he was born and raised, Vitebsk. He was an early modernist artists who created paintings, book illustrations, stained glass, ceramics and fine art prints. After living in france and surrounding himself with artistic freedom, he was described as "His vision soared and he created a new reality, one that drew on both his inner and outer worlds". A well known medium of his includes his stained glass pieces. He began creating stained glass with a synagogue at Hebrew University's Hadassah Medical center in Jerusalem. He often read the bible and felt inspired to make these stained glass pieces.