Wednesday, May 30th, 2007...5:39 am
A Jewish artist haunted by the face of Jesus.
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In the autumn of 1915, Marc Chagall took a short trip from his hometown of Vitebsk in Belorussia to Zaolshe, the summer seat of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Shalom Dov-Ber-Schneerson. Chagall, then a 28-year-old painter with a burgeoning reputation, reports in his memoir “My Life” that he had been haunted “for a long time” by “the pale face” of Jesus and he wanted some guidance. Although he had grown up in a Hasidic milieu, Chagall had abandoned religious observance at the age of 13, and by the time that he met Schneerson he was thoroughly secularized, with a résumé that included four years in Paris on the front lines of the revolutionary art wars.WSJ
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