Alexandre Orloff (Russian, 1899-1979)

Alexandre Orloff (also Alexander Orlov, Russian: Александр Константинович Орлов) was a painter of Russian origin, active in Czechoslovakia (now Czechia) and France. He spent his childhood in Russia but moved to Prague in 1924 where he enrolled at the Ukrainian School of Fine Arts. The painter Sergey Mako was his tutor. After completing his studies in 1928, Orloff began work as an illustrator for Prager Press.

Alexandre Orloff participated in exhibitions around Czechoslovakia and Poland, in 1933 he held his first one-man show in the gallery of Jiří Karásek in Prague. 

Later that year, Alexandre Orloff moved to Paris. He exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries, the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon de l'Art Libre, and the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, organised several exhibition in Nice with Sergey Mako, and participated in exhibitions of Russian émigré artists in Paris. He was the subject of personal exhibitions at Galerie des Anciens et Modernes (1969), Le Soleil (1973, 1975), A. Volloton (1975), and Les Arts Plastiques Modernes (1975).

Alexandre Orloff's style underwent many changes throughout his artistic career, he experimented with Cubism while in Prague, Symbolism in the 1930s and Lyrical Abstraction in the post-war period.