Robert Herlth
- Art direction
- May 2, 1893 · Wriezen, Brandenburg, Germany
- January 6, 1962
Biography
Influential German art director, the son of a brewer. Herlth studied at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin. Between 1916 and 1918, he designed his first theatrical sets during wartime army service in Vilnius, collaborating with the set designer Hermann Warm. From 1922, he worked in tandem with Walter Röhrig on some of the most seminal motion pictures made by Ufa. He put into being at once elaborate and massive baroque sets for stage and screen, as well as the distorted, expressionist visions of directors like Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. Herlth also excelled at creating the simpler sets required for the more intimate and naturalistic Kammerspielfilms. His best work in both categories is well exemplified by The Last Laugh (1924), Faust (1923), Congress Dances (1931) and Amphitryon (1935). The partnership with Roehrig ended in 1936 and Herlth began to work on more commercial properties. After the war, he alternated routine entertainments (Das doppelte Lottchen (1950), Im Weissen Rössl (1952) with the occasional masterpiece (Film Without a Name (1948)). For his work on the two-part adaptation of The Buddenbrooks (1959) he was awarded the German Film Award (Bundesfilmpreis) in 1959. - IMDb mini biography by: I.S.Mowis
Known for
Filmography
- Jack Mortimer · Production Design
- Eine Frau fürs ganze Leben · Production Design
- Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil · Production Design
- Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil · Production Design, Art Direction
- The Trapp Family in America · Art Direction, Set Decoration
- Taiga · Production Design
- The Spessart Inn · Production Design
- The Last Ones Shall Be First · Production Design
- Confessions of Felix Krull · Production Design
- The Trapp Family · Art Direction, Set Decoration
- Geliebte Feindin · Production Design
- Solang es hübsche Mädchen gibt · Production Design
- Magic Fire · Art Direction
- The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch · Production Design
- The Divorcée · Production Design
- The Chaplain of San Lorenzo · Production Design
- Unnatural · Set Decoration
- Die Försterchristl · Production Design
- Behind Monastery Walls · Production Design
- Der Teufel führt Regie · Art Direction
- Two Times Lotte · Production Design, Art Direction
- Verspieltes Leben · Production Design
- Opera Ball · Production Design
- The Broken Jug · Production Design
- The Sovereign · Production Design
- Hans in Luck · Director
- The Royal Waltz · Production Design
- The Royal Waltz · Art Direction
- Les dieux s'amusent · Production Design
- Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds · Production Design
- Rêve éternel · Art Direction
- The Eternal Dream · Art Direction
- Cairo Season · Production Design
- The Only Girl · Art Direction
- Dawn · Art Direction
- The Countess of Monte Cristo · Production Design
- The Small Gap · Art Direction
- Congress Dances · Art Direction
- In the Employ of the Secret Service · Art Direction
- The Little Escapade · Production Design
- The Man in Search of His Murderer · Art Direction
- The Flute Concert of Sans-souci · Production Design
- Love's Carnival · Production Design
- A Student's Song of Heidelberg · Production Design
- The Temporary Widow · Art Direction
- Hokuspokus · Art Direction
- The Immortal Vagabond · Art Direction
- The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna · Production Design
- Asphalt · Art Direction
- Whirl of Youth · Art Direction
- Looping the Loop · Art Direction
- Faust · Art Direction, Costume Design
- Tartuffe · Art Direction, Costume Design
- The Chronicles of the Gray House · Production Design
- The Last Laugh · Art Direction
- The Treasure · Production Design
- Wandering Souls · Art Direction
- Destiny · Art Direction
- Toteninsel · Costume Design, Art Direction