Alexandre Alexeieff
Alexandre Alexeieff , also Alexei Alexeïeff , ( Russian Александр Александрович Алексеев ; born April 18, 1901 in Kazan , Russian Empire , † August 9, 1982 in Paris ) was a French pioneer of animated films .
Life
Alexeïeff spent much of his childhood in Istanbul , where his father was a Russian military attaché until 1914 . At the time of the Russian Revolution he was a naval cadet. In 1921 he emigrated to Paris, where he married the actress and painter Alexandra Grinevsky (1899–1976) in 1923 , with whom he developed new graphic techniques, as well as with his future wife, the American art student Claire Parker (1910–1981), innovative forms of drawn film. He worked in Paris and Berlin , where in 1933 Gasparcolor made the first of his numerous films, A Night on Bald Mountain, based on the music of Mussorgsky .
After the Second World War he returned to Paris, where he gained a significant artistic reputation and in 1956 participated in the Cannes Film Festival . Notable advertising films can also be traced back to him (for example for Renault , Esso and Brun ).
His last film, Trois thèmes , was made in 1980.
Filmography
- A night on the Bald Mountains / Une nuit sur le mont Chauve , 1933
- La belle au bois dormant , 1935
- Balatum , 1938
- Huilor , 1938
- Les oranges de Jaffa , 1938
- Chants populaires nº 5 , 1944
- En passant , 1946
- Fumées , 1951
- Masques , 1952
- Nocturne , 1954
- La sève de la terre , 1955
- Cent pour cent , 1957
- Anonymous , 1958
- Divertissement , 1960
- Le Procès , 1963
- Le nez , 1963
- L'eau , 1966
- Tableaux d'une exhibition , 1972
- Trois thèmes , 1980
literature
- Giannalberto Bendazzi : Alexeïeff. Itinéraire d'un Maître . Ed. Dreamland, Paris, ISBN 2-910027-75-9
Web links
- Alexandre Alexeieff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alexander Alexeieff at arte.tv
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bregje Hofstede: Grinevsky and Alexeieff, a dance in the shade . In: Library magazine , communications from the state libraries in Berlin and Munich (2012) 2, pp. 32–36
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alexeieff, Alexandre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alexeïeff, Alexandre; Alexeïeff, Alexei |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French pioneer of animation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kazan , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1982 |
| Place of death | Paris |