With the opening of a new exhibition at the Zurich Art Museum titled "Chagall, Master of Modernism," the story of Marc Zakharovich Chagall (1887, 1985) is presented.

What would Fraumünster look like today without the stained glass created by Chagall? It would be one of many former monastery churches reflecting various eras in the history of society, the country, and the city. Perhaps only the beautiful pointed spire and central location would attract attention, prompting visitors to enter. But on September 13, 1967, in the presence of representatives from the church board, city administration, artists, and historians, Chagall visited Fraumünster to assess the commission offered to him by Zurich.

"These windows amaze me with their height and width. I have never worked with such unusual sizes and proportions... How can I fit the entire composition into these five narrow windows so that each becomes 'alive'?" he pondered aloud.

For a whole year, Chagall was persuaded, and for a whole year he contemplated. During his second visit, Marc Chagall decided to take on the project of creating stained glass for the choir at Fraumünster Church.

As early as 1956, the artist began to realize his concept, later referred to by art historians as "Chagall's Bible," in a new material for him, glass. "Stained glass seems like a very simple thing: the material is light itself..." Chagall said. The play of light with colored glass captivated him so much that he worked in this genre almost until the end of his life. Chagall's stained glass adorned the windows of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, a Catholic church in Metz, and the synagogue at a medical center in Jerusalem. The solemn opening of the stained glass in Zurich took place in September 1970, when Chagall was 83 years old.

The story of Jesus on a green background, symbolizing birth, growth, movement, life, and eternity. The story of Christ, surrounded by Old Testament scenes: peacemakers and heralds of the transformation of the world opposite the Messiah; the holy golden city descending from heaven, and a ladder leading to the skies. And one-eyed, earless beings: either Vitebsk cows, or the war horses of Armageddon, or donkeys, one of which the Prophet from Nazareth rode into Jerusalem, or Lambs of God resembling little sheep. All this is Chagall's stained glass at Fraumünster Church.

In 1978, the ninety-year-old master created a new masterpiece on the dark southern wall of the transept: a round rose window with a diameter of 2.7 meters. "Precious, the only word that fits this window," writes art historian I. Vogelzanger de Roche in the book "Chagall's Windows in Zurich."

Chagall's rose window, like his other stained glass, is primarily explained by color. In this stained glass, blue dominates, encompassing the entire musical range of the artist's palette, from heavy, deep tones to light, ringing shades. It reveals all psychological states of a person: from tragic, gloomy, stormy to bright, heavenly. Blue was Chagall's favorite color. He lived, breathed, and created with it. "Creation" is the theme of the rose window at Fraumünster. But it is not just an illustration of a biblical story from Genesis, nor a scientific representation of the formation of the world. It is Chagall's visions, a special hymn to the Creator, the creation of the Creator.