Photo courtesy Kristina Jaspers, Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin.
Kurt van der Basch, 1975, a Prague-based storyboard artist and illustrator, grew up in Canada's East coast maritime region, where he studied classical piano. In 1999, he entered the film and television industry, designing and illustrating props for the Hallmark Channel's epic Chinese fantasy "The Lost Empire", working as a scenic painter on the action-adventure film, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", and conceptualizing and illustrating props and sets on "Alien vs Predator" and Terry Gilliam's biographical fantasy film "The Brother's Grimm". With a knack for quick drawing, Kurt turned to storyboarding in 2003 with Liev Schreiber's "Everything is Illuminated" and Neil Burger's 2004 drama "The Illusionist". He has since applied his drawing skills to a wide range of media in Europe and the United States, from production illustrations for Hype William's music videos for Janet Jackson and Kanye West and Madonna's 2009 "Sticky and Sweet" tour, to drawing storyboards for Timur Bekmambetov's 2008 blockbuster "WANTED". He has also worked on dozens of television commercials. Kurt's most recent projects include Showtime's hit series "The Borgias" and the Wachowski/Tom Tykwer directed 2012 epic film "Cloud Atlas".
In the Autumn of 2011 Kurt was invited to Berlin to participate in a special live-drawing public presentation of storyboard art for the German "Museum für Film und Fernsehen" exhibition: "ZWISCHEN FILM UND KUNST – STORYBOARDS VON HITCHCOCK BIS SPIELBERG".
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