Vitebsk Marks 129th Anniversary of Marc Chagall’s Birthday

Vitebsk, a cozy city on the bank of the Dvina River, is known to connoisseurs of art as a homeland of talented painter and graphic artist Marc Chagall. A unique atmosphere, childhood memories and even the smallest "details" of the native places – streets, house roofs, church domes, people and animals - have become an inseparable part of the special and mythic world that the artist of the 20th century avant-garde captured on his canvases.

On 7 July, Marc Chagall’s birthday, Vitebsk greeted its guests with a varied program of celebrations that kicked off on City Day. The program offered a mix of various “colors”:  a theatrical parade, the unveiling of a commemorative plaque and a long-awaited  Chagall Street, flower ceremonies, the 3rd International Chagall Plein Air, an exhibition of artworks by young artists and the Visiting Marc and Bella mystery play… 

Celebrations of Marc Chagall’s 129th birthday in pictures…