Died 1942-02-07.
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Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin was a Russian illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva, contributed to the Ballets Russes, co-founded the Union of Russian Artists, and from 1937 was a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR. Ivan Bilibin gained popularity with his illustrations of Russian folk tales and Slavic folklore. Throughout his career he was inspired by the art and cultur…
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culture · Russian illustrator (1876–1942) · illustrator · painter · graphic artist · also Ivan Bilibin, Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, Ivan Jakovlevitch Bilibine, Ivan Jakowlevitch Bilibin, Ivan Jakovlevic Bilibin, Ivan Jakovlevič Bilibin
Born 4 August 1876 · Died 7 February 1942 · Q312024
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Died 1942-02-07.
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Bilbin, his wife and step-son travelled to Palestine and Syria, where he painted landscapes
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Asking for a divorce (in order for Bilibin to marry Shchekatikhina), to which she did not respond
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By 1917, the relationship struggled due to Bilibin's drinking.
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Bilibin was hired by the State Paper Manufacturing Section to illustrate ball programs, exhibition and book posters, postcards for the Red Cross's Society of St
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Bilibin left the Union of Russian Artists, as a result of differences in approach to their creative work
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Bilibin served as the designer for the first stage production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel
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Was banned because of his illustration depicting the emperor as a donkey
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Published his findings in the monograph Folk Arts of the Russian North
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Studied at Anton Ažbe's Art School in Munich, where he was heavily influenced by Art Nouveau and the German satirical journal Simplicissimus, and then under Ilya Repin at Princess Maria Tenisheva's School in Saint Pet
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Bilibin began studying at the law faculty of the University of Saint Petersburg, and he completed his course there in 1900
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Bilibin was accepted into the First Saint Petersburg Gymnasium
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Born 1876-08-04.
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