Bella Rosenfeld

Bella Chagall

Bella Rosenfeld Chagall ( Russian Бэлла Розенфельд-Шагал * 15. December 1895 in Vitebsk , † 2 September 1944 in New York ) was a Yiddish-speaking Russian author and wife of Marc Chagall .

Life

Bella Rosenfeld was born on December 15, 1895 as the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family in Vitebsk. Her father, Shmuel Noach Rosenfeld, was a jeweler and a Lubavitcher hasid. She graduated from a girls' high school in Vitebsk and studied at Moscow University. In 1909 she met Marc Chagall, whom she married in 1915. In the same year the Chagall couple moved to Saint Petersburg , and the following year their daughter Ida was born. In 1918 the family returned to Vitebsk. In 1922 they settled in Lithuania and moved to Paris the following year, after a short stay in Germany . In 1941 the family emigrated to the United States. In 1944 Bella Chagall died of a viral infection in New York .

Bella Chagall often sat as a model for her husband, for example in 1917 for the picture Bella with the white collar . She has also published two books.

Works

• First encounters , Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-11630-8 (German first edition 1969)
• Brennende Lichter , Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-11223-X (with 39 drawings by Marc Chagall) (German first edition 1969; Yiddish: “Brenendike likht”, Book League of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order, IWO, New York 1945; English: Burning Lights , Schocken, New York 1946; French: Lumières allumées , Geneva, Trois Collines 1948, Paris, Gallimard 1973; Hungarian: Ego Gyertyak , 1966; Danish: Braendende lys.Erindringer , Copenhagen 1986; Dutch: Brandende kaarsen : herinneringen aan de verdwenen joodse wereld , Amsterdam (2007))

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bela Shagal [Chagall]: Brenendike likht, New York 1945, (yidd.), [P. 3]

literature

• Marc Chagall: My life , autobiography, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1959, ISBN 3-7757-0054-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Bella Rosenfeld in the catalog of the German National Library