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Hans Cürlis

Hans Cürlis

DirectorWriterProducer Feb 16 (died age 93) Straelen, Germany 1919–1952 (33 year career)
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Biography

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…

Known For

Cinderella
Film

Cinderella

Producer
The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart
Film

The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart

Producer
Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf
Film

Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf

Director

Filmography

Acting (1)