Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Leon Bakst, Russian Jewish Artist, Dies
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Léon Bakst
Léon (Lev) Samoylovich Bakst, born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg, was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Jewish origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes. He designed the décor for such productions as Carnaval (1910), Spectre de la rose (1911), Daphnis and Chloe (1912), The Slee…
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culture · Russian painter (1866–1924) · painter · designer · costume designer · scenographer · draftsperson · graphic artist · illustrator · fashion designer · watercolorist · theatre designer · also Léon Bakst, Lev Rosenberg, Lev Samoĭlovich Bakst, Lev Samoïlovich Rosenberg, Lev Samoĭlovich Rozenberg, Lev Samoylovich Rosenberg
Born 27 January 1866 · Died 27 December 1924 · Q214666
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2016· 2 entries
eng.belta: Svetlov: Leon Bakst is an iconic personality for many countries
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eng.belta: Leon Bakst's Time and Art expo opens in Vilnius
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2013· 1 entry
The Washington Post: Leon Bakst and the Garretts: A chronology
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1924· 1 entry
Died 1924-12-27.
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1922· 1 entry
Bakst broke off his relationship with Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
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1920· 1 entry
Organizing two exhibitions of the artist's work at New York's Knoedler Gallery, as well as subsequent traveling shows
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1914· 1 entry
Bakst was elected a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts
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1913· 1 entry
In New York that then traveled to Detroit (1913), Buffalo (1914), Cincinnati (1914), Chicago (1914) and Montreal (1914)
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1909· 1 entry
Bakst worked mostly as a stage-designer, designing sets for Greek tragedies
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1908· 1 entry
Gained attention as a scene-painter for Diaghilev with the Ballets Russes
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1902· 1 entry
Took a commission from Tsar Nicholas II to paint Admiral Avellan and Russian sailors arriving in Paris, a painting he started there, during the celebrations from the 17 to 25 October 1893
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1899· 1 entry
Founded the influential periodical Mir iskusstva, meaning "World of Art"
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1898· 1 entry
Showed his works in the Diaghilev-organized First Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Artists; in World of Art exhibitions, as well as the Munich Secession, exhibitions of the Union of Russian Artists, etc
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1866· 1 entry
Born 1866-01-27.
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