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Bask in the Bakst
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Léon Samoilovitch Bakst was born as Lev Rosenberg on May 10, 1866 in Grodno (currently Belarus) in a middle-class Jewish family. In 1899, he co-founded with Sergei Diaghilev the influential periodical World of Art. His graphics for the World of Art magazine brought him fame.In 1898 he 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.
Beginning in 1909 Bakst worked mostly as a stage-designer, designing sets for Greek tragedies, and in 1908 made a name as a scene-painter for Diaghilev with the Ballets Russes (Cleopatra (1909), Scheherazade (1910), Carnaval (1910), Narcisse (1911), Le Spectre de la rose (1911), Daphnis et Chloé (1912)). All that time he lived in Europe because as a Jew he did not have the right to live permanently outside the Pale of Settlement.
He was an easel painter as well as a portrait painter. An occasional teacher - Chagall was his most famous student.
A Ballet Seating Cube - The Magic Lives On!
Use this link to read more about this amazingly talented man. http://www.leon-bakst.com/
Bask in the Bakst
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Léon Samoilovitch Bakst was born as Lev Rosenberg on May 10, 1866 in Grodno (currently Belarus) in a middle-class Jewish family. In 1899, he co-founded with Sergei Diaghilev the influential periodical World of Art. His graphics for the World of Art magazine brought him fame.In 1898 he 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.
Beginning in 1909 Bakst worked mostly as a stage-designer, designing sets for Greek tragedies, and in 1908 made a name as a scene-painter for Diaghilev with the Ballets Russes (Cleopatra (1909), Scheherazade (1910), Carnaval (1910), Narcisse (1911), Le Spectre de la rose (1911), Daphnis et Chloé (1912)). All that time he lived in Europe because as a Jew he did not have the right to live permanently outside the Pale of Settlement.
He was an easel painter as well as a portrait painter. An occasional teacher - Chagall was his most famous student.
A Ballet Seating Cube - The Magic Lives On!
Use this link to read more about this amazingly talented man. http://www.leon-bakst.com/
Beginning in 1909 Bakst worked mostly as a stage-designer, designing sets for Greek tragedies, and in 1908 made a name as a scene-painter for Diaghilev with the Ballets Russes (Cleopatra (1909), Scheherazade (1910), Carnaval (1910), Narcisse (1911), Le Spectre de la rose (1911), Daphnis et Chloé (1912)). All that time he lived in Europe because as a Jew he did not have the right to live permanently outside the Pale of Settlement.
He was an easel painter as well as a portrait painter. An occasional teacher - Chagall was his most famous student.
A Ballet Seating Cube - The Magic Lives On!
Use this link to read more about this amazingly talented man. http://www.leon-bakst.com/
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