Alexandre Alexeieff

Alexandre Alexeieff, Alexei Alexeieff, ( born April 18, 1901 in Kazan, Russian Empire; † August 9, 1982 in Paris) was a French pioneer of animation.

Life

Alexeieff spent much of his childhood in Istanbul, where his father until 1914, Russian military attaché was. At the time of the Russian Revolution, he was a naval cadet. In 1921 he emigrated to Paris and married there in 1923, the actress and painter Alexandra Grinevsky ( 1899-1976 ), with whom he developed novel graphical techniques, as well as 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 the Gasparcolor the first of his many films was A Night on Bald Mountain music by Mussorgsky.

After the Second World War, he returned to Paris, where he became a major artistic reputation, and in 1956 participated in the film festival of Cannes. Also notable commercials go back to him ( so for Renault, Esso and Brun ).

His last film, Trois thèmes, was 1980. 1982 he died in Paris.

Filmography

• A Night on the Bare Mountain / Une nuit sur ​​le mont Chauve, 1933
• La belle au bois dormant, 1935
• Balatum, 1938
• Huilor, 1938
• Les oranges de Jaffa, 1938
• Chants populaires n º 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