Discover graphic artist, illustrator, interior decorator Léon Nikolaevich Bakst

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This field records and makes accessible name variations, as found in sources. Alternate spellings, nicknames, maiden names - with or without the married name - are included in this category.

: Bakst, Léon Nicolaevitch
Bakst, Léon Nikolaievich
Bakst, Léon Nikolaïevitch
Bakst, Leon Nikolajewitsch
Bakst, Lev Samoilovich
Bakst, Lev Samojlovitsj
Rosenberg, Lev Samoïlevitch
Rozenberg, Lev Samoilovich
Rozenberg, Lev Schmule
Rozenberg was oorspronkelijke naam

Qualifications: graphic artist, illustrator, interior decorator, designer, fashion designer, painter, watercolorist, decorative painter (of interiors), manufacturer of gouaches, draftsperson, scenographer, academy lecturer

Nationality/school: Russian

Born: Grodno (city) 1866-04-27/1866-05-10

Deceased: Paris 1924-12-27/1924-12-28

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Lissim, Simon Mikhailovich

samenwerking gedurende de periode dat Bakst tegelijkertijd met Lissim in Parijs verkeerde (1921-1924)

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Biographical information

Education: Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (St. Petersburg)

1883-1887 (St. Petersburg); 1893-1899 (Parijs)
Académie Julian (Parijs)

Active in

Sint-Petersburg (Rusland) 1883 - 1893
België 1891
Duitsland 1891
Frankrijk 1891
Spanje 1891
Italië 1891
Zwitserland 1891
Parijs 1893 - 1899
Algerije 1897
Tunesië 1897
Sint-Petersburg (Rusland) 1899 - 1910
Griekenland 1907
samen met Valentin Serov
Parijs 1910 - 1924
Sint-Petersburg (Rusland) 1912
Verenigde Staten van Amerika 1923 - 1924

born in

active in

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Benois, Albert Nikolaevich
Chistyakov, Pavel Petrovich
Edelfelt, Albert Gustaf Aristides
Venig, Karl Bogdanovich
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Benkendorf, Dmitri Aleksandrovich
Bilinsky, Boris Konstantinovich
Guro, Elena Genrikhovna
Krivoutz, Vladimir
Matyushin, Mikhail Vasilievich
Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Anna Petrovna
Oudot, Roland
Tyrsa, Nikolai Andreevich
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent
Matisse, Henri
Somov, Konstantin Andreevich
Benois, Aleksandr Nikolaevich
Menzel, Adolph
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Lissim, Simon Mikhailovich
Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: figure, landscape (genre), literature (genre), orientalism, portrait, beach scene

Product: book decoration, poster, scenic design, costume design

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950
Witt Checklist 1978
Saur 1992- , vol. 6 (1992), p. 370 vv. (as: Bakst, Léon)
Milner 1993 , p. 61-64 (as: Bakst, Léon)
Bown 1998 , p. 23 (as: Bakst (real name Rozenberg), Lev Samoilovich)
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 1, p. 662 (as: Bakst, Léon Nicolaevitch)

Catalogue of costumes and curtains from Diaghilev and de Basil Ballets, Londen (Sotheby & Co.), 17 juli 1968

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