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Léon Bakst
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Russian artist (1866–1924)
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Léon Bakst was a male painter, designer, costume designer, and scenographer. Born in Hrodna, he held citizenship in the Russian Empire, Russia, and France. His birth name was Лейб-Хаим Израилевич Розенберг, and he was also known by the given names Chaim and Lev. He studied at the Académie Julian and was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Bakst was a member of the Mir iskusstva group and taught Marc Chagall. He spoke Russian.
Bakst’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. He received the award of Officer of the Legion of Honour. His work "The designs of Léon Bakst for The sleeping princess" is among his notable publications. He died in Rueil-Malmaison and is buried in Batignolles Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1866?
- Died
- 1924
- Works
- 23
Top works
- The designs of Léon Bakst for The sleeping princess
- Leon Bakst, sensualismens triumf
- Лев Бакст
- Alʹmanakhi "Tvorchestvo"
- T︠S︡arʹ Dodon
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Large-Scale Machine Learning with Stochastic Gradient Descent
· 2010 · cited 3,427x
- Correlations in Space and Time and Born Approximation Scattering in Systems of Interacting Particles
· 1954 · cited 2,537x
- Optimization Methods for Large-Scale Machine Learning
· 2018 · cited 2,131x
- SIGNATURE VERIFICATION USING A “SIAMESE” TIME DELAY NEURAL NETWORK
· 1993 · cited 1,400x
- Stochastic Gradient Descent Tricks
· 2012 · cited 1,356x
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Key facts
- Born
- Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg , 27 January 1866 ( 1866-01-27 ) , Grodno , Russian Empire
- Died
- 27 December 1924 (1924-12-27) (aged 58) , Rueil-Malmaison , France
- Alma mater
- Imperial Academy of Arts
- Movement
- Modernist, Orientalist themes
- Spouse
- Lyubov Tretyakova ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1903 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 1907 )
- Children
- André Bakst [ fr ]
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Hrodna
- Place of death
- Rueil-Malmaison
- Occupation
- interior designer
- Educated at
- Académie Julian
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Student of
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Genre
- portrait
- Image
- Léon Bakst, Self-Portrait, 1906, Tretyakov Gallery 9077.jpg
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- Commons category
- Léon Bakst
- date of birth
- 1866-05-10
- date of death
- 1924-12-28
- Commons Creator page
- Léon Bakst
- place of burial
- Batignolles Cemetery
- member of
- Mir iskusstva
- student
- Marc Chagall
- has works in the collection
- Waddesdon Manor
- P6482
- Léon Bakst
- birth name
- Лейб-Хаим Израилевич Розенберг
- pseudonym
- Léon Bakst
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Early life
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