Alexandre Alexandrovitch Alexeieff (Russian: Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ ÐµÐµÐ²; 18 April 1901 â€" 9
August 1982) was a Russian Empire-born artist, filmmaker and
illustrator who lived and worked mainly in Paris. He and his second
wife Claire Parker (1906â€"1981) are credited with inventing the
pinscreen as well as the animation technique totalization. In all
Alexeieff produced 6 films on the pinscreen, 41 advertising films and
illustrated 41 books.Alexeieff was born in the town of Kazan in
Russia. He spent his early childhood in Istanbul where his father,
Alexei Alexeieff, was a military attaché.Alexeieff had two older
brothers, Vladimir and Nikolai. Vladimir caught syphilis from a Moscow
actress with whom he had an affair. His mother forced him to remain in
his room and not touch his brothers. The pressure of this was such
that Vladimir shot himself. Before he died, he wrote a note to
Alexandre saying, “You are very talented. You must keep on
drawing.†His second brother, Nikolai, disappeared in Georgia,
Russia, during the Russian Revolution of 1917. He was never heard from
again; the family suspected that he died of typhus.
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ ÐµÐµÐ²; 18 April 1901 â€" 9
August 1982) was a Russian Empire-born artist, filmmaker and
illustrator who lived and worked mainly in Paris. He and his second
wife Claire Parker (1906â€"1981) are credited with inventing the
pinscreen as well as the animation technique totalization. In all
Alexeieff produced 6 films on the pinscreen, 41 advertising films and
illustrated 41 books.Alexeieff was born in the town of Kazan in
Russia. He spent his early childhood in Istanbul where his father,
Alexei Alexeieff, was a military attaché.Alexeieff had two older
brothers, Vladimir and Nikolai. Vladimir caught syphilis from a Moscow
actress with whom he had an affair. His mother forced him to remain in
his room and not touch his brothers. The pressure of this was such
that Vladimir shot himself. Before he died, he wrote a note to
Alexandre saying, “You are very talented. You must keep on
drawing.†His second brother, Nikolai, disappeared in Georgia,
Russia, during the Russian Revolution of 1917. He was never heard from
again; the family suspected that he died of typhus.
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