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Jan Švankmajer
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Czech director, animator and artist (born 1934)
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Jan Švankmajer is a Czech film director, sculptor, animator, and photographer born in Prague in 1934. He holds citizenship in the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia and speaks Czech. Švankmajer studied at the Faculty of Theatre, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. His professional career began in 1964, and he works within the fields of visual arts, film, and literature.
His notable work includes the film *Alice*. He is married to Eva Švankmajerová. His works are held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. The Open Library lists five works by him, including *Baradla Cave*, *Touching and Imagining*, and *Dimensions of Dialogue*. He is also associated with the category of films directed by Jan Švankmajer.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- לטרנה מגיקה
- Baradla Cave
- Jan Vankmajer : Dimensions of Dialogue
- Touching and Imagining
- Evasvankmajerjan Serbocroatian Text
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Film & TV
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech surrealist artist and filmmaker. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jan Švankmajer, licensed…
Known for
- Engi – Sound Designer Ivo Špalj — Self2023
- Kunstkamera — Self2022
- Alchemical Furnace — Himself2020
- Vratislav Effenberger or Black Shark Hunting — Himself2018
- The Music of Zdeněk Liška — Self2017
- Raymond Roussel: The Day of Glory — Self2017
- Kikoe2009
- Golden Sixties — Self2009
- Les Chimères des Švankmajer — Self2001
- The Magic Art of Jan Švankmajer — Himself1992
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1934-09-04 ) 4 September 1934 (age 91) , Prague , Czechoslovakia
- Education
- Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
- Known for
- Filmmaker in animation, stop-motion, puppetry and live-action; writer, playwright and surrealist
- Style
- informel, surrealism, tactilism, art brut
- Spouse
- Eva Švankmajerová
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovakia
- Place of birth
- Prague
- Spouse
- Eva Švankmajerová
- Languages spoken
- Czech
- Notable work
- Alice
- Field of work
- literature
- Image
- Jan-Švankmajer-2012.jpg
- Work location
- Czech Republic
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- Commons category
- Jan Švankmajer
- date of birth
- 1934-09-04
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Jan Švankmajer
- name in native language
- Jan Švankmajer
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- topic has template
- Template:Jan Švankmajer
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Encyclopedic overview
Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech retired filmmaker, animator, writer, playwright and artist. He draws and makes free graphics, collage, ceramics, tactile objects and assemblages. In the early 1960s, he explored informel, which later became an important part of the visual form of his animated films. He is a leading representative of late Czech surrealism. In his film work, he created an unmistakable and quite specific style, determined primarily by a compulsively unorthodox combination of externally disparate elements. The anti-artistic nature of this process, based on collage or assemblage, functions as a meaning-making factor. The author himself claims that the intersubjective communication between him and the viewer works only through evoked associations, and his films fulfil their subversive mission only when, even in the most fantastic moments, they look like a record of reality. Some of the works he created together with his wife Eva Švankmajerová.
Life and films
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