Anton Ažbe
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Anton Ažbe was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in V
Anton Ažbe, 1904 photograph
Self-portrait, c. 1886
The Harem, the last known work by Ažbe. His opus magnum Odalisque has been lost (its existence attested by a single photograph made in 1902).
The Village Choir, around 1900
Ivan Bilibin
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Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin was a Russian illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva, contributed to the Ballets Russes, co-founded the Union of Russian Artists, and from 1937 was
Anton Ažbe
…Ažbe trained the "big four" Slovenian impressionists (Rihard Jakopič, Ivan Grohar, Matej Sternen, Matija Jama), a whole generation of Russian painters (Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Igor Grabar, Wassily Kandinsky, Dmitry Kardovsky and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, to name a few), Serbian painters Nadežda Petrović…
Portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1901
Logo of the magazine and "Sic transit ..." Жупел (журнал) (Bogeyman) (Jupel/Zhupel), 1905
Baba Yaga from Vasilisa the Beautiful, 1899
Vasilisa the Beautiful, 1899