About

Known credits:
15
Birthday:
1889-02-16
Place of birth:
Straelen, Germany
Website:
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Hans Cürlis

Overview

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.

Known for

Directing
1951 Der Film entdeckte Kunstwerke indianischer Vorzeit Directing Director N/A
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1949 Schwarz - Weiß - Gelb Directing Director N/A
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1946 Vitamine an der Straße Directing Director N/A
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1946 Fleckfieber droht! Directing Director N/A
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1929 Alexander Calder Directing Director N/A
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1929 The Lower Danube Directing Director N/A
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1929 Alceo Dossena Directing Director N/A
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1926 Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf Directing Director N/A
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1924 Schaffende Hände: Max Oppenheimer Directing Director N/A
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1923 Schaffende Hände: George Grosz Directing Director N/A
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1922 Schaffende Hände: Lovis Corinth Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1951 Der Film entdeckte Kunstwerke indianischer Vorzeit Writing Writer N/A
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1949 Schwarz - Weiß - Gelb Writing Writer N/A
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Production
1922 Cinderella Production Producer 59
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1919 The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart Production Producer 58
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