Alexandre Benois

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Alexandre Benois was a Russian artist, stage designer, and art critic best known as a founding figure of the Mir Iskusstva movement and a key scenographer for early 20th-century ballet.

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Alexandre Benois canonical 7
Alexander Benois 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art critic
art historian
costume designer
human
illustrator
member of the Imperial Academy of Arts
painter
set designer
stage designer
birthDate 1870-05-03
birthPlace Russian Empire
Saint Petersburg
linked to: St. Petersburg
burialPlace Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
child Nadezhda Benois
cofounderOf Mir Iskusstva
linked to: Mir iskusstva
countryOfCitizenship France
Russian Empire
deathDate 1960-02-09
deathPlace France
Paris
educatedAt Imperial School of Jurisprudence
employer Ballets Russes
Mariinsky Theatre
Sergei Diaghilev's company
linked to: Ballets Russes
father Nikolai Leontyevich Benois
linked to: Nikolai Benois
fieldOfWork art criticism
art history
ballet scenography
theatre design
genre ballet design
book illustration
historical painting
influenced Ballets Russes aesthetics
Russian stage design
languageOfWorkOrName French
Russian
memberOf Mir Iskusstva
linked to: Mir iskusstva
mother Camilla Albertovna Benois
movement Art Nouveau
Mir Iskusstva
linked to: Mir iskusstva

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name Alexander Nikolayevich Benois
Alexandre Benois
nativeName Александр Николаевич Бенуа
notableFor founding figure of Mir Iskusstva
key scenographer for early 20th-century ballet
notableWork "The Last Promenade of Catherine II"
"Versailles Series" paintings
decor for "Giselle"
decor for "La Boutique fantasque"
decor for "Le Pavillon d’Armide"
decor for "The Nutcracker"
decor for "The Sleeping Beauty"
illustrations for Pushkin's works
stage designs for "Les Sylphides"
stage designs for "Petrushka"
occupation art critic
art historian
artist
painter
stage designer
relative Eugene Lanceray
Yevgeny Lansere NERFINISHED
Zinaida Serebriakova
residence Paris
Saint Petersburg
linked to: St. Petersburg
sibling Albert Benois
Leon Benois
spouse Anna Karlovna Benois
wrote art criticism essays
memoirs
studies on 18th-century art

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Ballets Russes collaboratedWith Alexandre Benois
The Rake's Progress setDesignerAtPremiere Alexander Benois
linked to: Alexandre Benois
Tikhvin Cemetery notableBurial Alexander Benois
linked to: Alexandre Benois
Benois family hasNotableMember Alexandre Benois
The Firebird setDesignerAtPremiere Alexandre Benois
The Firebird costumeDesignerAtPremiere Alexandre Benois
The Firebird librettist Alexandre Benois
Petrushka originalDesigner Alexandre Benois
Alexandre Benois name Alexandre Benois