William Kentridge

South African artist (born 1955)

  • Fame53.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • South Africa rank#250
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Born 1955 · age 71South Africa

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  • Rank in South Africa
    #250
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  • Age
    71
    Born 1955
  • Known for
    Felix in Exile
    1994
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Updated 2026-08-12

William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. He is especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s, constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second's to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These palimpsest-like drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art.

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