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Prince Alexander Golitzen (Golitsyn), (Moscow, February 28, 1908 – San Diego, July 26, 2005) was a Russian-born American production designer who oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies. Born in Moscow in the princely Golitsyn family, Alexander Golitzen fled the country with his parents during the Russian Revolution.
Alexander Golitzen was a legendary art director, a field in which most worker's names remain relatively unknown. His prolific work in hundreds of films, predominantly at Universal, made his name familiar to many film-goers, at least among those who read credits.
- January 1, 1
- Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- January 1, 1
- San Diego, California, USA
- Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism and Mysticism
- Theophany and Transformation
- Jewish Temple and Christian Liturgy
- Dionysius The Areopagite
One of the distinctive features of Golitzin’s scholarly approach, manifested already in his earliest writings, was his keen attention to the Jewish matrix of Eastern Orthodox theology and spirituality. Golitzin’s appreciation of early Jewish traditions, represented not only in the Hebrew Bible, but also in the large body of extra-biblical apocalypt...
In early Jewish biblical and pseudepigraphical accounts, divine theophanies are often portrayed as revelations of the divine Glory, or Kavod. Moreover, these early Jewish testimonies attempt to envision Kavod not simply as an anthropomorphic manifestation of the deity, but rather as a crucial nexus of cultic devotion and worship. Such veneration of...
Another distinctive feature of Golitzin’s scholarly approach is his keen attention to Jewish sacerdotal and liturgical traditions which profoundly shaped both early Christian liturgical settings and later Eastern Orthodox mystical testimonies. Golitzin argues that even though "the Gospel of the Risen Jesus compelled a certain parting of the ways wi...
Golitzin's first effort to apply his new methodology to the study of patristic texts was his doctoral dissertation on Dionysius the Areopagite, defended in Oxford University and later published in Analekta Vlatadon. As Basil Lourié rightly observes, the Corpus Dionysiacum was simultaneously the most convenient and the most inconvenient source for t...
Aug 20, 2005 · Alexander Golitzen, an Academy Award-winning art director and production designer who for 40 years made entire civilizations, from shimmering Old World cities to...
Aug 16, 2005 · Alexander Golitzen, Oscar-winning art director and production designer who shared Academy Awards for his work on 1943’s “Phantom of the Opera,” 1960’s “Spartacus” and 1962’s “To Kill...
Alexander Golitzen was a legendary art director, a field in which most worker's names remain relatively unknown. His prolific work in hundreds of films, predominantly at Universal, made his name familiar to many film-goers, at least among those who read credits.
Jul 26, 2005 · Prince Alexander Golitzen (Golitsyn), ( Moscow, February 28, 1908 – San Diego, July 26, 2005) was a Russian-born American production designer who oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies. Born in Moscow in the princely Golitsyn family, Alexander Golitzen fled the country with his parents during the Russian Revolution.
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