René Hubert

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René Eugène Hubert (born October 7, 1895 in Frauenfeld , Switzerland ; † June 5, 1976 in Zurich ) was a Swiss costume designer for German, French, British and American films.

Live and act

René Eugène Hubert received his artistic training in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts . Since the early 1920s he worked as a painter, costume designer, interior designer and set designer for Paris and London stage shows. In Paris he was also known as a fashion designer .

Costume of Marlon Brando in the film Desirée (1954)

In the middle of the same decade, Hubert found another field of activity in the cinema. Active in Hollywood for the first time since 1924 , he was allowed to dress stars like Gloria Swanson at an early age . In 1928 René Hubert went to Berlin for a year and a half , where he designed the costumes for silent A-productions such as Joe Mays Asphalt and Hanns Schwarz ' The wonderful lie of Nina Petrovna . In 1930, the Swiss returned temporarily to the USA, but continued to work for German and French film productions, including the box office hit Bombs on Monte Carlo with Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann . In Paris Hubert designed the costumes for some of René Clair's groundbreaking productions , including Under the Roofs of Paris .

1933 René Hubert was in Germany from the seizure of power by the National Socialists surprised. He finished shooting Ludwig Berger's Waltz War and returned to France that same year to work with Fritz Lang . After another flying visit to Hollywood in 1934, the film producer Alexander Korda brought him to London in 1935 . Over the next five years, Hubert designed the costumes for some of the key films in the Korda production, including the HG Wells adaptation The World in 100 Years , the historical drama Fire over England , the colonial adventure The Four Feathers and the historical romance Lord Nelson's Last Love . Subsequently, Hubert designed the costumes for several productions made by Ernst Lubitsch and for a considerable number of other entertainment films.

René Hubert has only worked sporadically in the film business since 1950. Then he returned to his old homeland, Switzerland. After his last film work - Bernhard Wickis Dürrenmatt - adaptation The Visit - he only worked occasionally as a costume designer for theater productions; For example, in the summer of 1964 he designed the costumes for a performance of Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow . René Hubert had accepted US citizenship in 1945, but later withdrew it in favor of Swiss.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 253.

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personal data
SURNAME Hubert, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hubert, René Eugène (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenfeld , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1976
Place of death Zurich