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Ivan Bilibin




 

 

Ivan Bilibin

 

(b Tarkhovka, St Petersburg, 4 Aug 1876; d Leningrad [now St Petersburg], 7 Feb 1942).

Russian graphic artist and stage designer. The son of a naval doctor, Bilibin was educated in St Petersburg, studying law at the University (1896–1900) and art at the school of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1895–8); then, under Il’ya Repin, he studied at both Princess Maria Tenisheva’s Art School (1898–1900) and the Academy of Arts (1900–04). From 1899 he exhibited with the group known as the WORLD OF ART (Mir Iskusstva) and was elected chairman of its reconstituted exhibition society in 1916. He also contributed to the Mir Iskusstva journal. Meanwhile he taught graphic art at the school of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1907–17).

 

 


Illustration for the fairy-tale "Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf."
1899

 




 




 




 




 




 

Stage-set design  of the opera "Sadko" by Rimsky-Korsakov
1914


 

Stage-set design  of the opera "Sadko" by Rimsky-Korsakov
1914


 

Stage-set design of the opera "Prince Igor" by Borodin
1930


 

Prince Igor

 

 



 

Stage-set design of the opera the "Tale of the Lost City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia" by Rimsky-Kosrakov
1929


 

Stage-set design for Act Four of the opera "The Tsar's Bride" by Rimsky-Korsakov
1930


 

Stage-set design of the opera "Boris Godunov" by Mussorgsky
1930


 


 Illustration to the fairy-tale "The Frog Proncess."
1930


Illustration to "The Tale of the Capital City of Kiev and of the Russian Bogatyrs" by N. Vodovozov


 

 


Volga and Mikula


 A Maiden from Vologda