Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942)

Aliases: Ivan Ivanovič Bilibin; Ivan Jakovlevič Bilibin; Iwan Jakowlewitsch Bilibin; Ivan Iakolevitch Bilibine; Ivan Yacovlevich Bilibine

Professions: Illustrator; Painter

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  Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin , Russian 1876-1942 Sts. Boris and Gleb in a Boat watercolor on paper

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  Courtyard of the Al-Azhar Mosque and University Complex, Cairo

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  Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, 1876-1942 , Tsaritsa Militrissa watercolour over pencil on paper

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  Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin , 1876-1942 the ship: a sketch for a panel watercolour with gouache over pencil on paper with pen and ink

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Ivan Bilibin Biography

(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).

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