Walter Reimann (2 June 1887 – 8 November 1936) was a German

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and

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. He was an Expressionist and member of the group of artists associated with Zurich magazine,

Der Sturm ''Der Sturm'' () was a German List of avant-garde magazines, avant-garde art and literary magazine founded by Herwarth Walden, covering Expressionism, Cubism, Dada and Surrealism, among other artistic movements. It was published between 1910 a ...

. He worked on the production design of a number of films during his career, the most important of which was ''

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''. Along with fellow members of the ''Der Sturm'' group,

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and Hermann Warm, Reimann created skewed, dreamlike sets that distorted geometry and indicated the interior states of mind of the characters. ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' was an international success and the production design has had a lasting influence on other movies - especially in the horror and film noir genres - since then. The Caligari design is echoed in the sets produced by Universal Studios for their series of classic monster movies in the 1930s. Reimann continued to work as an art director in Germany until his death in 1936, but none of his subsequent designs had the impact of Caligari. In 2017, the

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honored Reimann's work and legacy with a tribute at

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in Hollywood.

Selected filmography

* '' The Plague of Florence'' (1919) * ''

'' (1920) * ''

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'' (1920) * '' The Eternal Curse'' (1921) * '' A Dying Nation'' (1922) * '' The False Dimitri'' (1922) * '' Nora'' (1923) * '' The Island of Tears'' (1923) * '' The Green Manuela'' (1923) * '' A Woman, an Animal, a Diamond'' (1923) * '' Our Heavenly Bodies'' (1925) * '' Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * '' The Island of Dreams'' (1925) * '' The Wig'' (1925) * '' Fire of Love'' (1925) * ''

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'' (1927) * '' A Daughter of Destiny'' (1928) * '' Guilty'' (1928) * '' Retreat on the Rhine'' (1930) * '' Police Spy 77'' (1930) * '' The Woman Without Nerves'' (1930) * '' Rasputin, Demon with Women'' (1932) * ''

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'' (1932) * '' Secret of the Blue Room'' (1932) * '' Maid Happy'' (1933) * ''

The Gentleman from Maxim's ''The Gentleman from Maxim's'' () is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Carl Boese and starring Lee Parry, Johannes Riemann and Oskar Karlweis. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art dire ...

'' (1933) * '' What Am I Without You'' (1934) * '' Elisabeth and the Fool'' (1934) * '' The Girl Irene'' (1936)

References

Bibliography

* Michael L. Stephens. ''Art Directors in Cinema: A Worldwide Biographical Dictionary''. McFarland, 1998.

External links

* 1887 births 1936 deaths 20th-century German painters German art directors Artists from Berlin German Expressionist painters {{Germany-film-bio-stub