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Léon Bakst

1866 - 1924

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Léon (Lev) Samoylovich Bakst (Russian: Леон (Лев) Самойлович Бакст), born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg (8 February [O.S. 27 January] 1866 – 27 December 1924), 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 Sleeping Princess (1921) and others. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Bakst is the 332nd most popular painter (up from 334th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 27th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belarusian Painter.

Leon Bakst was a Russian painter, costume designer, and stage designer. He is most famous for his work with the Ballets Russes.

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Among painters, Léon Bakst ranks 332 out of 2,023. Before him are Max Liebermann, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Niccolò dell'Abbate, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Félicien Rops, and Thomas Couture. After him are Willem de Kooning, Louis Wain, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Adriaen Brouwer, Aelbert Cuyp, and Carlo Crivelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Léon Bakst ranks 25. Before him are Nathan Söderblom, Antoine Meillet, Ferruccio Busoni, Anne Sullivan, Ramsay MacDonald, and Lizzie Magie. After him are Butch Cassidy, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Mahboob Ali Khan, August von Wassermann, and Emilio De Bono. Among people deceased in 1924, Léon Bakst ranks 22. Before him are Andrew Irvine, Robert Nivelle, Princess Louise of Belgium, Ferruccio Busoni, Ferdinand Cheval, and George Mallory. After him are Eleonora Duse, Alexander Parvus, Giacomo Matteotti, Karl Denke, Teófilo Braga, and Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr..

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Léon Bakst ranks 20 out of 368. Before him are Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Olga Korbut (1955), Stanisław Moniuszko (1819), Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), Zalman Shazar (1889), and Yanka Kupala (1882). After him are Ossip Zadkine (1888), Isser Harel (1912), Alexander Parvus (1867), Pavel Sukhoi (1895), Stanislav Shushkevich (1934), and Zhores Alferov (1930).

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Among PAINTERS In Belarus

Among painters born in Belarus, Léon Bakst ranks 3. Before him are Marc Chagall (1887), and Chaim Soutine (1893). After him are Władysław Strzemiński (1893), January Suchodolski (1797), Kazimierz Alchimowicz (1840), and Maja Berezowska (1893).

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