Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin

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Ivan Jakowlewitsch Bilibin, portrayed by Boris Kustodijew

Ivan Bilibin ( Russian Иван Яковлевич Билибин ;. Scientific transliteration Ivan Jakovlevic Bilibin ; born August 4, jul. / 16th August  1876 greg. In the village Tarchowka near Saint Petersburg , † 7. February 1942 in Leningrad ) was a Russian and Soviet Painter , book illustrator and theater maker. He was a member of the Mir Iskusstwa (The World of Art) Association, co-founder of Soyuz russkih hudožnikov (Association of Russian Painters) and from 1937 a member of Soyuz hudožnikov SSSR (Union of Painters of the USSR).

Life

Born as the son of the military doctor Jakov Ivanovič Bilibin (Яков Иванович Билибин) and his wife Varvara Alexandrovna, he attended the law faculty of St. Petersburg University after completing school . After graduating in May 1900, he went to Munich , where he trained with the painter Anton Ažbe . He later continued this under the direction of Ilya Repin at the Art Academy in Saint Petersburg. After the formation of the Mir Iskusstwa artists' association , he became an active member. His work for this association as well as the entry into the newspaper and book graphics began with a commission for the design of the magazine Mir Iskusstva 1899. Artistic design of other magazines like the wild rose (Шиповник) and spending followed the Moscow publishing house.

In the period from 1902 to 1904 he was sent to the ethnographic department of the Alexander III Museum. to the governorates of Vologda , Arkhangelsk , Tver and Olonez to collect ethnographic material and to photograph monuments of old village architecture.

Bilibin's artistic talent was particularly evident in his illustrations of Russian fairy tales and legends as well as in his work on theatrical performances.

At the time of the revolution of 1905 he drew revolutionary caricatures , especially for the magazine "Župel" (Жупелъ), which in 1906 was banned. After the October Revolution of 1917 he left Russia. After stays in Cairo and Alexandria , he finally settled in Paris in 1925 . Here he designed private branches and Orthodox churches. Over time, Bilibin came to terms with Soviet power. Between 1935 and 1936 he helped design the Soviet embassy in Paris. Then he traveled back home and settled in Leningrad.

From 1936 to 1941 Bilibin taught at the All-Russian Academy of Artists and continued his work as an illustrator and stage designer. Bilibin died in February 1942 during the Leningrad blockade .

Private life

In 1902 Bilibin married his former student, the painter Marija Jakowlewna Tschembers (Мария Яковлевна Чемберс). They have sons together, Alexander (1903) and Ivan (1908). In 1912 he again married a former student, the art school graduate Renée Rudolfowna O'Konnel (Рене Рудольфовна О'Коннель). In 1923 he married the painter Alexandra Wasiljewna Schchkatichina-Potozkaja (Александра Васильевна Щекатихина-Потоцкая ), with whom he had a joint exhibition in Amsterdam in 1929.

gallery

  • Illustration to the fairy tale The Beautiful Vasilisa (1899–1900, 1902)

  • Illustration to the fairy tale Marja Morevna

  • Illustration to the fairy tale The Finist's Pen of the Bright Falcon

  • 1900s

  • The final image of the fairy tale Little Sister Alyonuschka and Brother Ivanuschka (1902)

  • Crimea . Batiliman (1940)

  • Slobodka Berendejevka . Draft for the opera 'Sneguročka' by Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov

literature

  • Andreas Bode: Ivan Jakovlevič Bilibin - the Russian fairy tale illustrator . Erasmus-Grasser-Verlag, Wielenbach, 1997, ISBN 3-925967-29-X .
  • Elisabeth Borchers: The fairy tale of the magnificent falcon and other Russian fairy tales With Illustr. v. Ivan Bilibin. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., 1974.
  • Elisabeth Borchers: Wassilissa the wonderful and other Russian fairy tales . With Illustr. v. Ivan Bilibin. Frankfurt a. M., 1971
  • Sergei V. Golynec: Ivan Bilibin . Leningrad, 1981 (German edition)
  • Patty Wageman (Ed.): Russian legends - Folk tales and fairy tales (Exhibition Groningen, Groninger Museum, December 15, 2007 - April 6, 2008). Rotterdam, 2007. ISBN 978-90-5662-608-2

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personal data
SURNAME Bilibin, Ivan Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Билибин, Иван Яковлевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarchowka (near Saint Petersburg )
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1942
Place of death Leningrad