Germán Gelpi (1909–1982) was an Argentine artist and

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

designing sets for films and the theatre.Pellettieri p.346 Gelpi worked on more than eighty films in a career that began during the

Golden Age of Argentine Cinema The Golden Age of Argentine cinema (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Época de Oro del cine argentino'' or other equivalent names), sometimes known interchangeably as the broader classical or classical-industrial period (Spanish: ''período clásico- ...

Selected filmography

* '' Savage Pampas'' (1945) * ''

Where Words Fail ''Where Words Fail'' (Spanish: ''Donde mueren las palabras'') is a 1946 Argentine drama film of the classical period directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Enrique Muiño, Dario Garzay and Héctor Méndez. The film's sets were designed by the ...

'' (1946) * '' From Man to Man'' (1949) * ''

The Earring ''The Earring'' (Spanish: ''El Pendiente'') is a 1951 Argentine thriller film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed by León Klimovsky and starring Mirtha Legrand. It is a film noir based on a story by Cornell Woolrich.Spicer p.437 Th ...

'' (1951) * '' To Live for a Moment'' (1951) * '' Sucedió en Buenos Aires'' (1954)

References

Bibliography

* Pellettieri, Osvaldo. ''Historia del teatro argentino en las provincias, Volume 2''. Editorial Galerna, 2005.

External links

* 1909 births 1982 deaths Argentine art directors Artists from Buenos Aires {{Argentina-bio-stub