Alexandre Alexeieff
Sign in to saveAlso known as Aleksandr Aleksi︠e︡ev, Aleksandr Alekseev, Aleksander Aleksejev, Aleksandr Alekseyev, Aleksandr Alekseyevich Alekseyev, Alexandre Alexandrovitch Alexeieff
artist, filmmaker, illustrator (1901-1982)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1901
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Le Docteur Jivago
- Les frères Karamazov
- Les recits de feu Ivan Pétrovitch Bielkine
- Images de la lune
- Entretien avec Alexandre Alexeieff et Claire Parker
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Film & TV
Kazan, Russian Empire [now Tatarstan, Russia]
Russian-born French experimental short artist who with his wife, American-born Claire Parker, invented the pinscreen animation technique. He is most known for designing the prologue sequence for Orson Welles's The Trial. He grew up in Constantinople, then the Ottoman Empire. His landmark work, Night on Bald Mountain (1933) was a fusion of musical piece and imagery, seven years before Wait Disney…
Known for
- Why Pinscreen? — Archive footage2024
- Jacques Drouin: In Relief — Archive Footage2009
- Dreams about Alfeoni — Self (archive footage)2002
- Pinscreen1973
- Alexeïeff at Work on 'The Nose': Rushes — Self1962
- At the Pinboard1960
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1961-08-23
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aleksandr
- Family name
- Alexeyev
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of birth
- Kazan
- Place of death
- 14th arrondissement of Paris
- Spouse
- Claire Parker
- Occupation
- painter
- Educated at
- Académie de la Grande Chaumière
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Field of work
- animated film
- Work location
- France
- Residence
- Paris
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- date of birth
- 1901-04-05
- date of death
- 1982-08-09
- name in native language
- Александр Алексеевич Алексеев
- Commons category
- Alexandre Alexeieff
- has works in the collection
- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- described at URL
- worldwideinvention.com/alexandre-alexeieff-inventing-the-pinscreen-as-well-as-the-animation-technique-totalization
- student
- Claire Parker
- manner of death
- Suicide
- different from
- Aleksandr Alekseyev
Sources (7)
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Alexandre Alexeieff, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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- Catalan
- Egyptian Arabic
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- Western Panjabi
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