Windows in the Zürich Fraumünster - SIGNED

Zürich: Orel Füddli Verlag. 1975. A history and analysis of Marc Chagall's creation for the chancel of the Fraumünster Church in Zurich, which included a five-part stained-glass window series and a rosette. Boldly signed by Chagall and dated St. Paul, 14/5 1972 to the title page. 12 pp. With black and white and color reproductions of the window loosly laid in. 21.5x15 cm (8½x6"), illustrated stapled wrappers.  Mild surface scratching, light creasing to corners; overall in fine condition. 

Without doubt, one of Chagall's greatest contributions to art in his later years was his work with stained glass. In 1956, when he was nearly 70 years old, he designed windows for Notre-Dame de Toute Grace in Assy, France, his first major project in this genre.  Then, from 1958 to 1960, he created windows for the cathedral Saint Etienne in Metz, France and then from 1960-62 he prepared the extraordinary windows for the synagogue of the Hebrew University's Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. "While paying tribute to his ethnic-religious rootedness...Chagall did not forget his embeddedness in a broader, cosmopolitan context.  In 1964 he created a window, entitled 'Peace,' in honor of Dag Hammarskjöld...at the UN headquarters in New York....During the following decade and a half, Chagall created ten more windows in different settings, thus displaying or demonstrating his own multicultural and inter-religious leanings....In 1967, he designed five large stained glass windows for the Fraumünster in Zurich, Switzerland, giving them an inter-religious slant.  One panel depicts Moses receiving the Torah, while the top of another window shows the crucifixion of Jesus."  (Fred Dallmayr, "Marc Chagall: The Artist as Peacemaker" (2020), p. 7) (21375)

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