His own origins are the core of his art: As the oldest child of a Jewish-Orthodox family, Marc Chagall grew up in a small town in present-day Belarus. In his often fantastical and poetic images, he later repeatedly tells of everyday life and customs, but also of exclusion and pogroms. The exhibition on the 40th anniversary of the death of the Russian-French painter is a collaboration with the Albertina in Vienna and showcases around one hundred works from all phases of his work. One focus is on Chagall's early works created between 1910 and 1923, when the young artist experimented with Fauvism and Cubism in Paris, combining the new tendencies with Jewish motifs and Russian folklore. Also to be discovered in the exhibition will be a less known dark and socially critical side of the artist, with images that have not lost their relevance to this day.