“If I were not a Jew…I wouldn’t have been an artist. I would be a different artis

“If I were not a Jew…I wouldn’t have been an artist. I would be a different artist all together.”—Marc Chagall, 1922

Russian-Jewish artist Marc Chagall was born Moishe Shagal on this day in 1887. This fall, the Jewish Museum presents Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922 exploring the artistic output of Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky, and Kazimir Malevich, 100 years after the Russian Revolution.