Chagall

The exhibition dedicated to the important artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) brings together around ninety works selected from his creative periods; it delves into his engagement with the most primary and universal themes of life, thus revealing a diverse multitude of "impossible possibilities." The central themes of motherhood and birth, death, and love predominate in Chagall's paintings, reflecting and illuminating them from new perspectives in their repetition and variation. Motifs such as the rooster and the donkey, the cow and the fish recur within the artist's variable and fantastic cosmos as flexible elements in their respective meanings.
Marc Chagall is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century, and his unique oeuvre spans from 1905 to the 1980s. Born into an Orthodox Hasidic Jewish working-class family and raised in the small Belarusian town of Vitebsk, the artist experienced his early childhood in a way that would influence him throughout his life. The apparent contradictions and contrasts of Chagall's compositions and visual worlds bear witness to the artist's search for a "logic of the illogical," through which he added a psychological dimension to traditional pictorial forms.
The exhibition is a collaboration between the Albertina Museum in Vienna and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf. It will be on view from September 28, 2024, to February 9, 2025, at the Albertina Museum Vienna.
For more information, visit: https://www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/chagall/