Marc Chagall’s pupil returns to homeland
The Director of the Marc Chagall Museum, Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya, plans to exhibit the collection separately, allowing it to tour the Republic. The exhibition will spend an especially long time in Rogachev, where Kaplan was born. In fact, Isaak Kushnir and his wife also plan to donate a considerable part of their collection to Rogachev.
In 1918, the artist moved to Vitebsk, studying under Chagall, who headed the Commissariat on Art in the Vitebsk Province at that time. Chagall recommended that Kaplan go to Petrograd to learn to paint. Anatoly Kaplan is an acknowledged Soviet master, who allowed local culture to influence mainstream contemporary art.