Alfred Butow

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Alfred Bütow (born July 28, 1902 in Berlin ; † April 3, 1986 in Herrsching am Ammersee ) was a German production designer for film and television.

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Bütow had received all-round training as a set designer, commercial artist, shop window and interior decorator. From 1916 to 1919 he completed an apprenticeship as a theater painter , then attended the arts and crafts school and technical school courses for perspective architecture and style. Between 1919 and 1924 he worked for the theater company Hugo Baruch & Cie. employed as a theater painter, then Bütow went to the Netherlands as an assembly worker . From 1927 to 1931 he had his own studio for theater sets. In 1932 Bütow moved to Berlin as a set designer, where he was to work for the Lessing Theater , the Metropol Theater and the East German State Theaters , among others .

In the winter of 1933/34 he gained his first filmic experience as a painter, and in 1934 he made his debut as a film architect . Initially, Alfred Bütow designed backdrops on behalf of smaller production companies. In 1936 he designed the decorations for a film by producer and director Richard Eichberg for the first time . With his two-parter Der Tiger von Eschnapur / Das Indian Grabmal the following year, Bütow was entrusted with an elaborate, well-equipped large-scale production, and immediately afterwards he realized the equipment for some Rühmann amusement games. From 1939 to 1945 he often cooperated with his colleague Heinrich Beisenherz . Bütow's post-war films, the designs of which he realized several times in collaboration with Ernst Schomer , are largely meaningless. In 1957, Alfred Bütow said goodbye to film decoration and began to turn to television. His first large-scale production, shot in 1958, the highly acclaimed multi-part As far as feet carry , was an enormous public success.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 627.

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personal data
SURNAME Butow, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German production designer for film and television
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1986
Place of death Herrsching am Ammersee