Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a Belarusian-born Jewish artist whose poetic synthesis of memory, folklore, modernism, and sacred imagery reshaped 20th-century painting. Trained in Vitebsk and St. Petersburg before moving to Paris in 1910, he absorbed Fauvism and Cubism while developing a deeply personal visual language. His work spans painting, printmaking, theatre design, murals, and stained glass, and is held in major public, private, and corporate collections worldwide.