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Hans Cürlis (1889-1982)

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Birthplace:
Straelen, Germany

Born:
February 16, 1889

Died:
August 6, 1982

Biography from TheMovieDB

Hans Cürlis filmed Kandinsky, Grosz, Pechstein, Dix, Kollwitz, Liebermann, and Calder at work, many years before Paul Hasaert’s Visite à Picasso. Cürlis had studed with Wölflin and had written his thesis on Dürer. In 1919 he established the Institut für Kulturforschung, "the first German scientific institution which consciously selected the cinema as a form of expression through the results of its own work" (Cürlis, 1929). That he is not considering simply a form of documentation is demonstrated by the fact that among his first collaborators can be listed animation and silhouette artists such as Bartosch, Carl Koch, Lotte Reiniger, and Toni Rabold. After a film on African sculpture and a number of geographical documentaries, in 1922 he began the series Schaffende Hände: short films not "on art" so much as the physical process of the creation of a work of art turned into cinema.

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Film Production

Director:
1922  Schaffende Hände: Lovis Corinth
1923  Schaffende Hände: George Grosz
1924  Schaffende Hände: Max Oppenheimer
1926  Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf
1929  Alceo Dossena
1929  Alexander Calder
1929  The Lower Danube
1946  Fleckfieber droht!
1946  Vitamine an der Straße
1949  Schwarz - Weiß - Gelb
1951  Der Film entdeckte Kunstwerke indianischer Vorzeit

Producer:
1919  The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart
1922  Cinderella
1922  Schaffende Hände: Lovis Corinth
1923  Schaffende Hände: George Grosz
1924  Schaffende Hände: Max Oppenheimer
1926  Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf
1929  Alceo Dossena
1929  Alexander Calder
1929  The Lower Danube
1946  Fleckfieber droht!
1946  Vitamine an der Straße
1949  Schwarz - Weiß - Gelb
1951  Der Film entdeckte Kunstwerke indianischer Vorzeit

Writer:
1919  The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart
1922  Cinderella
1922  Schaffende Hände: Lovis Corinth
1923  Schaffende Hände: George Grosz
1924  Schaffende Hände: Max Oppenheimer
1926  Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf
1929  Alceo Dossena
1929  Alexander Calder
1929  The Lower Danube
1946  Fleckfieber droht!
1946  Vitamine an der Straße
1949  Schwarz - Weiß - Gelb
1951  Der Film entdeckte Kunstwerke indianischer Vorzeit

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