Bella Chagall (1895–1944)
Author of Burning lights
About the Author
Image credit: Bella with white collar, by Marc Chagall, 1917.
Works by Bella Chagall
Waarom staan die kaarsjes daar ...? 3 copies
Voor het eerst 3 copies
Burning Lights [illustrated] 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Chagall, Bella
- Legal name
- Rosenfeld-Chagall, Bella
- Birthdate
- 1895
- Date of death
- 1944-09-02
- Burial location
- Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Russia (birth)
- Birthplace
- Vitebsk, Weissrussland
Vitebsk, Russian Empire - Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Vitebsk, Belarus
Petrograd, Russia
Lithuania
Germany
Paris, France
Marseille, France (show all 7)
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Moscow University
- Occupations
- editor
translator
memoirist
muse - Relationships
- Chagall, Marc (husband until her death)
- Short biography
- Bella Chagall, née Rosenfeld, was born to a prosperous Orthodox Jewish family in Vitebsk, Russia (present-day Belarus). She attended Russian language schools and became a student at the Faculty of Letters at Moscow University in her teens. In 1909, while visiting friends in St. Petersburg, she met Marc Chagall, and they became engaged despite her family's disapproval. The couple married in 1915 and had a daughter the following year. In 1922, they moved to France. Bella edited and translated Marc's autobiography Ma Vie . Her own work, the memoir Burning Lights, written in Yiddish in 1939, was published posthumously in English in 1946. A second volume, First Encounter, appeared in 1983. The Chagalls fled to the USA following the outbreak of World War II, settling in New York in 1941. Bella Chagall died in 1944, apparently of a viral infection.
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