Léon Bakst

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Russian artist costume designer painter person set designer stage designer theatrical designer

Léon Bakst was a Russian painter and stage designer renowned for his vividly colored, innovative sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the early 20th century.

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Label Occurrences
Léon Bakst canonical 6
Leon Bakst 1
Lev Bakst 1

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Russian artist ⓘ
costume designer ⓘ
painter ⓘ
person ⓘ
set designer ⓘ
stage designer ⓘ
theatrical designer ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Léon Bakst ⓘ
surface form: Leon Bakst

Léon Bakst ⓘ
surface form: Lev Bakst

Léon Bakst ⓘ
surface form: Lev Samoylovich Bakst
birthName Lev Samoylovich Rosenberg ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1866-05-10 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1924-12-27 ⓘ
designedFor Ballets Russes ⓘ
ballet ⓘ
theatre ⓘ
educatedAt Imperial Academy of Arts ⓘ
employer Ballets Russes ⓘ
ethnicGroup Jewish ⓘ
fieldOfWork costume design ⓘ
painting ⓘ
stage design ⓘ
genre portrait painting ⓘ
theatrical design ⓘ
influenced 20th-century costume design ⓘ
modern stage design ⓘ
influencedBy Orientalist art ⓘ
Russian Silver Age culture ⓘ
surface form: Russian Symbolism
memberOf Mir iskusstva ⓘ
movement Mir iskusstva ⓘ
Orientalism ⓘ
Symbolism ⓘ
notableFor innovative ballet costumes ⓘ
vividly colored theatrical sets ⓘ
work for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes ⓘ
notableWork costume and set designs for "Cléopâtre" ⓘ
costume and set designs for "Daphnis et Chloé" ⓘ
costume and set designs for "Le Spectre de la rose" ⓘ
costume and set designs for "L’Après-midi d’un faune" ⓘ
costume and set designs for "Schéhérazade" ⓘ
painting "Terror Antiquus" ⓘ
placeOfBirth Hrodna ⓘ
surface form: Grodno

Grodno Governorate ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ
placeOfDeath France ⓘ
Paris ⓘ
residence Paris ⓘ
St. Petersburg ⓘ
surface form: Saint Petersburg
style colorful ⓘ
decorative ⓘ
taughtAt Zvantseva School of Drawing and Painting ⓘ
workedWith Sergei Diaghilev ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ballets Russes → collaboratedWith → Léon Bakst ⓘ
Académie Julian → student → Léon Bakst ⓘ
Ravel Daphnis et Chloé → originalDesigner → Léon Bakst ⓘ
subject surface form: Daphnis et Chloé
Sergei Diaghilev → collaboratedWith → Léon Bakst ⓘ
Daphnis et Chloé → setDesignerAtPremiere → Léon Bakst ⓘ
Léon Bakst → alsoKnownAs → Léon Bakst ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lev Samoylovich Bakst
Léon Bakst → alsoKnownAs → Léon Bakst ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lev Bakst
Léon Bakst → alsoKnownAs → Léon Bakst ⓘ
this entity surface form: Leon Bakst
Menton Cemetery → hasNotableBurial → Léon Bakst ⓘ