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Narbut, Georgy (Ivanovych) [Yegor Ivanovich]
(b Narbutovka [now in Sumy region, Ukraine], 26 Feb 1886; d Kiev, 23 May 1920). Ukrainian graphic designer and book designer. He received no special artistic training, but his tastes and later his style were formed under the influence of artists from the World of Art (Mir Iskusstva) group, particularly Ivan Bilibin. The influence of Bilibin’s style is apparent in Narbut’s illustrations to the tale about Yegor Khorobr (1904) and to Aleksandr Pushkin’s poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1905; both Kiev, Mus. Ukrain. A.). In 1910, having travelled abroad, Narbut spent some time in the studio of Simon Hollósy in Munich. On his return to St Petersburg, where he was based from 1906 to 1917, he created several fantastic compositions that incorporated architectural motifs and were imbued with a sense of disquiet, such as Landscape with a Comet (watercolour, 1910; St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.). In his later years Georgy Narbut illustrated and designed books of Ivan Krylov’s fables (Moscow, 1912) and Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales (Moscow, 1912–13). In his illustrations to the book The Year 1812 in Krylov’s Fables (Moscow, 1912) he perfected the technique of representing images as silhouettes against a contrasting background, which he also used in a number of portraits and compositions from the years 1913 to 1918.
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