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Chagall was born in 1887 in Vitebsk, a small Russian village that is now in Belarus.

Chagall, who was a forerunner to surrealism, drew his subject matter from Jewish life and folklore. Among his most famous works are the 12 stained-glass windows at the Hadassah Hospital in the Ein Kerem section of Jerusalem.

Chagall died in 1985.