{"title":"Bilibin, Ivan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIvan Yakovlevich Bilibin (\u003cspan\u003eИван Яковлевич Билибин)\u003c\/span\u003e (1876-1942)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a Russian illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva (\"World of Art\"), contributed to the Ballets Russes, co-founded the Union of Russian Artists, and from 1937 was a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR. Ivan Bilibin gained popularity with his illustrations of Russian folk tales and Slavic folklore. Throughout his career, he was inspired by the art and culture of medieval Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBilibin was born on 16 August 1876 in Tarkhovka, Saint Petersburg. He was born to Yakov Ivanovich Bilibin, assistant chief physician at the Saint Petersburg Naval Hospital, and Vavara Alexandrova Bilibina (née Bubnova).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1890, Bilibin was accepted into the First Saint Petersburg Gymnasium. He graduated from the Gymnasium with a silver medal in 1896. From 1895 to the spring of 1898, he studied at the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. In 1896 Bilibin began studying at the law faculty of the University of Saint Petersburg, and he completed his course there in 1900. Bilibin received a lawyer's diploma in the same year from the Law Faculty of Novorossiysk University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1898 he studied at Anton Ažbe's Art School in Munich, where he was heavily influenced by Art Nouveau and the German satirical journal Simplicissimus, and then under Ilya Repin at Princess Maria Tenisheva's School in Saint Petersburg from 1898 to 1900.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBilibin gained some success as early as 1899, when he first released illustrations for Russian fairy tales. The same year, after the formation of the artists' association Mir Iskusstva, in which Bilibin was an active member, his career as an illustrator of books and magazines began with a commission for its magazine Mir Iskusstva. He later also contributed essays on Russian folk art. Artistic designs for other magazines such as Dog Rose and productions of a Moscow publishing house followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating in May 1901, Bilibin went to Munich, where he completed his training with the painter Anton Ažbe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the period 1902 to 1904, working under the Russian Museum (Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III) Bilibin travelled to the Vologda, Olonetsk, and Arkhangelsk Governorates, performing ethnographic research and studying examples of Russian wooden architecture. In 1904 he published his findings in the monograph Folk Arts of the Russian North. Old Russian art had a great influence on his work. Another influence on his art was traditional Japanese prints and Renaissance woodcuts. On 16 December 1903 Bilibin became one of the founding members of the Union of Russian Artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the Russian Revolution of 1905, Bilibin drew revolutionary cartoons, especially for the magazine Zhupel, which in 1906 was banned because of his illustration depicting the emperor as a donkey. In 1909 Bilibin served as the designer for the first stage production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1910, Bilibin left the Union of Russian Artists, as a result of differences in approach to their creative work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn March 1916 Bilibin was elected chairman of the World of Art group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 22 September 1917, shortly before the October Revolution, Bilibin left Petrograd for Crimea, where he lived and worked until September 1919. He moved to Rostov-on-Don in October, and Novorossiysk in December 1919.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 13 March 1920, fleeing the Russian Civil War, Bilibin arrived in Alexandria where he spent quarantine, before moving to the Tell El Kebir refugee camp. In May, he settled in Cairo. In Cairo, he painted for the Greek colony, specialising in the Byzantine style art that was in demand by the Greek colony for icons and frescoes. He painted Egyptian landscapes, and studied Egyptian, Coptic and Arab art. He was also enraptured by the architecture of mosques and their \"head-spinning ornamentation\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Summer on 1924, Bilbin, his wife and step-son travelled to Palestine and Syria, where he painted landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn his return to Egypt in October 1924, Bilibin settled in Alexandria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn August 1925, Bilibin and his family moved to Paris, where he took to decorating private houses and Orthodox churches. The catalyst to the move was to attend the World Exhibition in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 16 September 1936, Bilibin and his family returned to the Soviet Union, arriving in Leningrad. Three days later, Bilibin was appointed professor of graphic art at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the All-Russian Academy of Arts. He remained in position until his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 15 March 1937, Bilibin joined the Artists' Union of the USSR.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn 7 February 1942, Bilibin died during the Siege of Leningrad, starving within the city when he refused to leave, and was buried in a collective grave.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bilibin-ivan-1876-1942-the-little-mermaid-1937","title":"Bilibin, Ivan (1876-1942) - The Little Mermaid 1937","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis illustration, by Ivan Bilibin, is from a 1937 Russian edition of Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image, in jpeg format, that is 600dpi and 5540 pixels wide by 7990 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/bilibin-ivan\" title=\"Ivan Bilibin\"\u003eIvan Bilibin\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 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