● Birthplace: Tehran
● Died: 06 February 2012 in Tehran
Biography
Master Ahmadieh, was born in Pamenar neighborhood in Tehran. His father was among the most prominent doctors of traditional medicine and his first incentive for art. During his childhood, he was first spoken to children and later went to a normal school. He is the animation in Iran and the father of Iranian animation. In the year 1957, he made his name as the founder of animated painting in Iran, with two films: Molla Nasreddin and The artificial moon. Ahmadieh designed these two films with a pencil and was brought to motion for two minutes. He was reading the teacher’s lips, and he was not able to write and this was a very upset and angry when he was Dictation Class from the end of the course. He was told to read the sixth elementary and his father, who was worried about his child, and had seen the great talent and his searching spirit, first he Sent to a carpentry workshop. He was very fond of carpentry, but the father had a bigger wish for him with Ostad Asghar Petgar in the painting class to Manouchehri’s street. Master Petgar are spoke and he only gave shake head and eyes to his fingers and brush. They remembered the movements of the brush and completed the training of paint and oil and watercolor, and in 1947, he was the Kamal ol Molk of the conservatory and taught painting as a academic. Ali Chitsaz, Abbas Katozian. and Sadeqpur, were among his cellmates during his study in conservatory.
Esfandiar Ahmadieh, has been located along the rational School of Kamal-ol-Molk because of his apprenticeship with the disciples of Kamal-ol-Molk and due to the important flow of Iranian contemporary paintings. The themes of Esfandiar Ahmadieh’s boards are also the same and the weather of Kamal-ol-molk, including images of nature, life, work, customs and traditions of ordinary people, single-face building, lifeless nature (artistic compositions of bottles and timepieces, mugs, pots, tables, and glassware. And a variety of different objects according to the taste of the painter, which is called the nature of the lifeless or Still Life, Qasas Religious, epic, and folk. He’s all in a diverse experience with various tools such as oil paint, watercolor, pastel and…. In the painting section of pottery and ceramics, he worked in the Office of Fine Arts and in the graphic section of the same multi-year office.
In the final years 1951 and the early years of the year 40, the Ahmadieh Master has developed many works in the field of animated painting, including: Designing and Drawing and directing: Jealous Ducks film, in 1962, drawing and painting and directing: The Wheat Cluster film, in 1963, a restless-place movie painting And painting: The Kite Footage Where Are You Go? Directed by Afkham Macoui. Esfandiar Ahmadieh’s entry into the animation world and the title of the film was due to his empirical efforts and in this field did not have any education. But in the field of painting, he must take into account the followers of Kamal-ol-Molk School.
Half a century after the French Emil W Coel, the animation Art Bunny in today’s world, Esfandiar Ahmadieh, according to his own news of the current, was seen by seeing the sequential frames of a film bar (celluloid) that had reached the accident to the mechanism of motion in the cinema and was able to use A Bolex sixteen-millimeter camera transforms its designs into animations. A thirteen-second film titled Shallows was built in the year 1957. The film is the first Iranian animated painting, and if there was an attempt to make animation, it was no place to register.
Esfandiar Ahmadieh, said: I had no expertise in this field, and I was able to take the first animation film of Iran with Peter Palian by taking advantage of my thinking and studies. I remember stool the camera from the construction workers, and with the rope and ropes, I harnessed the camera on the stool, and in the hallway, we took the drawings that were painted every 24 seconds on the ground and was built by Mulla Nasreddin. He added that there was no TV at that time and the employee was not displayed. After the plus of a painting about the thirty-TIR incident, he fell to Qezelhesar prison after liberation on the Sepah Street of an old-alleys street and sold a piece of movable painting films and live movies. When I saw a piece of movable painting films in sunlight, I could make a moving painting. I bought a multi-piece movie that I guess was a Mickey Mouse and made the movie in the Office of the Culture and art of Mulla Nasreddin. Mr. Mehrdad Pahlbod was very happy and ordered immediately to be bought from the US 16 mm camera and dispatched to the United States to study in this field.
In the decade 1951, in Iran, it was still not from the intellectual development of children and teenagers and not from any other art center to pay attention to animation. Naturally, school and educational schools were not established to learn animation art. And film to the Ministry of Culture and Art, and it was able to draw the officials ‘ opinion and bring the funds and facilities to build their next animation.
In years 1956 – 1961, the Department of Culture and Fine Arts (which later is the Ministry of Culture and Arts and today Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance), where the ceramic workshop, carpet weaving, miniature and etc., had a claim to support national arts, the distant and long-term dreams and the unestablished and the The test and failure of several young people, who sought to be artistic association, led to the establishment of a office that was supposed to be the country’s dream factory. This group consists of: Esfandiar Ahmadieh (Artist of Ceramic Workshop), Jafar Tejarat Chi (Airforce Officer and cartoonist), Parviz Osanloo (cinematographer, director), Peros Palian and Asadollah Kafafi, who were all five of the founders of the Ministry of Culture and Art. Later, Nosratollah Karimi, a well-educated director in Czechoslovakia, was also added to the group that was able to establish the first Iranian cartoon films with the help of several girls and boys.
In 2005, the Iranian Animation Filmmakers Association (ASIFA) was recognized as the foundation for Animation (animation) in Iran, and in the year 1991, the National Artists ‘ Evaluation Council received a artistic degree. At the meeting of Ostad Esfandiar Ahmadieh’s works, we become familiar with a world of colors, passion, diversity, movement, life, faith, ecstasy and stamp, and once again we remember that cleanliness and faith have been the basis of Iranian art. This excitement, ecstasy and compassion and the only material effect is think. Mice and Cats, Narenj and Bergamot, Wheat Clusters, Jealous, Moon Hunting, King Jamshid, Adam Horn, Dog of Greed and Fire Genesis, are among the works that Ahmadieh has been present as a director or designer and animator.
In addition to creating the works, Chicken Gold Egg, Ali Minecraft, millionaire, Shofer Driver Belle, Moon foreheaded and… And in the production of films such as: Kay of all the When it is more shameless,, The Kadoo Ghelghelezan, the tail rat, Lilly the pond, The Red Footed and Short, Father Legs When he Was Small, was with Behrooz Yaghmaeian.
In the year 1995, Ahmadieh started its cooperation with the Saba Animation Center, in addition to the production of various curtains:
Magpie Nimble and animation design: Rostam and Esfandiar, for four parts of 35 minutes, he was able to finalize its three parts.
