William Kentridge was born on 28 April 1955 and is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films, especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s.
27 Facts About William Kentridge
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William Kentridge continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds' screen time.
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William Kentridge has served as art director and overall director of numerous productions, collaborating with other artists, puppeteers and others in creating productions that combine drawings and multi-media combinations.
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William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg in 1955 to Sydney William Kentridge and Felicia Geffen, a Jewish family.
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William Kentridge was educated at King Edward VII School in Houghton, Johannesburg.
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William Kentridge showed great artistic promise from an early age, and began taking classes with charcoal at age eight.
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William Kentridge believed that being ethnically Jewish gave him a unique position as a third-party observer in South Africa.
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William Kentridge's parents were lawyers, well-known for their defence of victims of apartheid.
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William Kentridge developed an ability to remove himself somewhat from the atrocities committed under the later regimes.
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William Kentridge has practiced expressionist art: form often alludes to content and vice versa.
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The purpose of a machine such as this is to instil "peace" by force, but William Kentridge noted that it was used as a tool to keep lower-class natives from taking colonial power and money.
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Between 1989 and 2003 William Kentridge made a series of nine short films, which he eventually gathered under the title 9 Drawings for Projection.
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The political content and unique techniques of William Kentridge's work have propelled him into the realm of South Africa's top artists.
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William Kentridge conveys it through his erasure technique, which contrasts with conventional cel-shaded animation, whose seamlessness de-emphasizes the fact that it is actually a succession of hand-drawn images.
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William Kentridge is able in this way to create as many frames as he wants based on the original key frame simply by erasing small sections.
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William Kentridge's technique grapples with what is not said, what remains suppressed or forgotten but can easily be felt.
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William Kentridge has been commissioned to create stage design and act as a theatre director in opera.
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William Kentridge has staged Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Die Zauberflote and The Nose.
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On 8 August 2017, William Kentridge's Wozzeck premiered at the Salzburg Festival and received enthusiastic reactions.
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In 2023, William Kentridge received the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera for the production of 'Sybil' at the Barbican Theatre, London.
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In 2016, the anniversary of Rome's legendary founding in 753BC, William Kentridge unveiled Triumphs and Laments, a monumental mural along the right bank of the river Tiber.
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William Kentridge is married to Anne Stanwix, a rheumatologist, and they have three children.
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William Kentridge's films were shown at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
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William Kentridge's works are included in the following permanent collections: Honolulu Museum of Art, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Tate Modern.
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In 2012, William Kentridge was in residence at Harvard University invited to deliver the distinguished Charles Eliot Norton lectures in early 2012.
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William Kentridge is represented by Goodman Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery in New York and Lia Rumma Gallery in Italy.
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The South African record for William Kentridge is R6.6 million, set at Aspire Art Auctions in Johannesburg in 2018.