Online until April 26, 2021 The Center Pompidou-Metz is dedicating an exhibition to Marc Chagall, exploring the importance of stained glass in the artist’s work. It is designed in partnership with the Marc Chagall National Museum in Nice. The models of the stained glass windows produced for many buildings between 1958 and 1984, in the Grand Est region (Metz, Reims, Sarrebourg), ...
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Concerts at the Marc Chagall Museum
CYCLE OF 6 CONCERTS, FROM NOVEMBER 2020 TO APRIL 2021 Nice Philharmonic Orchestra. A coproduction of the Opéra de Nice and the 20th century national museums of the Alpes-Maritimes Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 31, Opus 110 Beethoven, Sonata for violin and piano No. 5 opus 24 “Spring” With the performers Hristiana Gueorguieva, violin and Tatiana Smelova, piano ...
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Until the early twentieth century, the history of Russia's Jews unfolded primarily in territories that no longer belong to the present-day Russian federation (Ukraine, Belarus, Bessarabia, and Lithuania). With a few rare exceptions, Jews were forbidden to settle in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and the city of Central Russia. Of course, Jewish colonies have existed since antiquity on the shores ...
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In northern Belarus, on the road to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Vitebsk symbolizes all the Jewish shtetlach of Russia immortalized in the work of Marc Chagall, who was born here in 1887 and lived here until 1907, and again from 1917 to 1919. In the era of Chagall’s childhood, Vitebsk had a Jewish majority (there were 34420 Jews here, or 52% of the population), as depicted in the images ...
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The synagogue of the handsome coastal town of Ostende becomes busy in the summer. It was built partly with the help of rich financiers. At one time as many as 300 families came to pray here. Among the famous Jewish figures who stayed in Ostende were Marc Chagall and Albert Einstein. This synagogue is unusual in that it is little frequented by Jews. Its beauty and harmonious proportions have ...
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The visitor to Eastern Europe hoping to discover a rich Jewish architectural heritage must remember that what was once the center of Judaic cultural and religious life in Europe -principally in Lithuania between the eighteenth century and the Shoah- had disappeared beyond ruins and cemeteries. The complete eradication of a Jewish presence, the sworn objective of the Nazis, was conducted with ...
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the legendary bohemia of Montparnasse included many Russians Jewish painters who had fled the anti-Semitic pogroms of the day. Among them were Soutine, Chagall, and Zadkine. Others, such as Modigliani, were simply attracted by the city’s prestige and contributed to the tremendous creative effervescence of the day. Division 22 of the ...
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