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Léon Bakst

1866 - 1924

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Léon Bakst, born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg (Russian: Леон (Лев) Самойлович Бакст, Лейб-Хаим Израилевич Розенберг; 27 January (8 February) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léon Bakst has received more than 300,589 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Léon Bakst is the 334th most popular painter (down from 332nd in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 26th 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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  • 300k

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  • 62.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Léon Bakst ranks 334 out of 2,023. Before him are Albert Marquet, Léon Bonnat, Meindert Hobbema, Thomas Couture, Jean-Marc Nattier, and Adriaen Brouwer. After him are Albert Edelfelt, Claude Joseph Vernet, Hendrik Goltzius, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Palma Vecchio, and Pieter Coecke van Aelst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Léon Bakst ranks 26. Before him are Anne Sullivan, Ramsay MacDonald, Nathan Söderblom, Emilio De Bono, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, and Ambroise Vollard. After him are Butch Cassidy, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Enrique Simonet, Princess Milica of Montenegro, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Among people deceased in 1924, Léon Bakst ranks 21. Before him are Ferruccio Busoni, Robert Nivelle, Eleonora Duse, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Alexander Parvus, and Giacomo Matteotti. After him are Princess Louise of Belgium, Karl Denke, Bogd Khan, Arne Garborg, Paul Natorp, and G. Stanley Hall.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Léon Bakst ranks 27 out of 368. Before him are Yanka Kupala (1882), Ossip Zadkine (1888), Pavel Sukhoi (1895), Alexander Parvus (1867), Stanisław Moniuszko (1819), and Bronislav Kaminski (1899). After him are Raphael Lemkin (1900), Maria Kaczyńska (1942), Francysk Skaryna (1486), Stanislav Shushkevich (1934), Sophia of Minsk (1140), and Yakub Kolas (1882).

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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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