Lena Gieseke is a well known and famous artist and special effects specialist who is recognised for her work on films including Otto’s Eleven (2010), Immortals (2011), and Hotel Lux (2011). She gained a lot of notoriety through her first marriage to American animator, playwright, and director Timothy Walter Burton. She is highly regarded for her skills as a 3D craftsperson in 1½ Knights.
Who Is Lena Gieseke?
Lena Gieseke was born on September 12, 1965, in Bremen, Germany. She was raised in a household where her mother focused on domestic duties while her father pursued commercial interests. She studied at the California School of Arts, where she graduated with degrees in both fine arts and photography. Later, she pursued studies at the prestigious Wimbledon College of Arts and Goldsmith College, where she furthered the development of her artistic skills.
Lena Gieseke then moved to the Universitat Koblenz in 2000, where she eventually completed her bachelor’s degree in computer graphics. She worked for a while after graduating before enrolling in the University of Georgia’s Dramatic Media Master of Fine Arts program. A few years after she graduated, the university presented her with a prize in honour of her dedication to and labour of love in the field of digital media.
She later received funding for a doctoral degree in digital media at the University of Stuttgart, which she finished in 2018.
Lena Gieseke’s Career
In 2006, Lena joined Perpetual Motion as a 3D artist and worked on the German movie Knight: The Search For The Lovely Princess Herzelinde. She worked as a freelance 3D artist at Method in Motion in California the following year. She finally obtained employment at Scanlife VFX as the Scripting and Pipeline TD and RD in the visual effects section thanks to her skills and experience.
Lena also conducted research in other areas connected to visual impacts. Later, she worked as an animator and 3DXcite programme developer on films including Vicky the Viking and Berlin 36. Her appearance in the 2010 movie “Alice in Wonderland,” which received widespread appreciation from audiences, served as her breakout performance in Hollywood.
In addition to her screen work, she holds the position of professor at the Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF University, where she has been working since 2016. She had finished her doctoral studies at Promotionskolleg Digital Media and worked as a guest lecturer at Furtwangen University before accepting this position.
Lena Gieseke And Tim Burton
Lena and Tim initially connected at a party in London sometime in the 1980s and grew close. They started dating when Lena accepted an invitation to a photo shoot for 1989 blockbuster film Batman, directed by Tim Burton. Even though some sources claim that the pair got married in 1989, they ultimately exchanged marriage vows on February 24, 1987. After getting married in a small ceremony in front of a few close friends and family members, the couple lived a quiet life away from the press until rumours of their divorce surfaced in 1991.
Tim had a complicated and powerful personality, which Lena found difficult to manage. Others, however, claimed that their divorce was the result of infidelity.
American director Tim Burton is well-known and esteemed for his work on fantasy, horror, and love stories. These motion pictures and television programmes include Dark Shadows (2012), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), and Wednesday (2022). Burton was awarded the Chevalier of Arts and Letters insignia on March 15, 2010, by Frédéric Mitterrand, who was the then-Minister of Culture.
Lena Gieseke’s Net Worth
More money is certain if you are both an artist and a special effects technician. The character makes over $63,000 annually. She has a net worth of about $2 million.
