İstanbul museum to host Jewish painter's works

İstanbul's Pera Museum will host an exhibition of paintings of Marc Chagall. The exhibition "Chagall: Life and Love" will open on October 23.

Chagall's 160 works will be on display during the exhibition.

As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall was born in 1887 to a poor Jewish family in Russia. Chagall began to display his artistic talent while studying at a secular Russian school, and despite his father's disapproval, in 1907 he began studying art with Leon Bakst in St. Petersburg.

In addition to images of the Jewish world, Chagall's paintings are inspired by themes from the Bible. His fascination with the Bible culminated in a series of over 100 etchings illustrating the Bible, many of which incorporate elements from folklore and from religious life in Russia.

Chagall received many prizes and much recognition for his work. He was also one of very few artists to exhibit work at the Louvre in their lifetime.