Fifty of the famous modernist’s works are on display at the Kaunas regional museum until New Year’s. The artist became interested in lithography in Berlin in 1920, learning the art under the tutelage of the German artist Hermann Struck. Chagall, who worked under a whole series of names, was born into a Jewish family in Vitebsk, now in Belarus. In 1922 the family fled Bolshevik rule, first resettling in Lithuania, and then Germany and France. During World War II Marc Chagall escaped the Holocaust in America, but returned to France after the war. He died on March 28, 2005 as he was ascending to his studio in an elevator. The motif of flight is integral to Chagall’s work. Members of the Kaunas Jewish Community attended the exhibition.