A memorial plaque will be installed in St. Petersburg in honor of Marc Chagall, a native of Vitebsk

The Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture of Saint Petersburg has approved the design for a memorial plaque dedicated to Marc Chagall. It will be installed on the facade of building number 7 in Perekupony Lane, where the artist lived from 1915 to 1918, reports Lenta.ru.

The plaque will be unveiled on March 28, 2014 (March 28 is the artist's death anniversary). The slab, 1 meter high and 60 cm wide, will be made of light Mansurovsky granite. It will feature a commemorative inscription and a glass composition inspired by Chagall's paintings.

The initiative to install the plaque belongs to the Dmitry Likhachev Foundation. The designer of the sketch is architect Vyacheslav Bukhaev.

Marc Chagall, one of the most prominent representatives of the artistic avant-garde of the early 20th century, was born in 1887 in Vitebsk. He moved to Petersburg in 1906 to study at an art school. In 1917, he returned to Vitebsk. He later emigrated to Paris. The artist died in 1985 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.