Alfred Kunz
Alfred Kunz (born June 26, 1894 in Vienna ; † August 2, 1961 there ) was an Austrian film architect , set and costume designer. He received the City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts in 1949 in the “Applied Art” category .
Life
Kunz worked as a freelance architect from 1918, and from 1922 as a set designer and set designer for many Viennese theaters. Kunz also worked early for film and was influential as a fashion illustrator. From 1938 to 1945 Kunz was artistic director of the “Vienna House of Fashion” in the Lobkowitz Palace and was significantly involved in the 1939 transformation of the Vienna Women's Academy into a fashion school for the City of Vienna . Kunz, who was the first director of the fashion school that was re-established in Schloss Hetzendorf from 1945 to 1955 , also built up the current fashion collection of the Wien Museum .
Filmography
as a film architect
- 1924: Ssanin
- 1926: The Gray House (as Alfred Kuntz)
- 1926: Schützenliesel
- 1927: The family without morals
- 1927: Rinaldo Rinaldini
- 1934: suburban variety
- 1935: The journey into the youth
- 1935: last love
- 1936: Singing youth
- 1944: The golden shackle
- 1945: friends
as a costume designer
- 1935: last love
- 1936: The Emperor's candlesticks
- 1936: Lumpacivagabundus
- 1937: premiere
- 1940: The postmaster
- 1940: for a lifetime
- 1942: Viennese blood
- 1944/1949: Viennese girls
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 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 515.
- Wolfgang Kos (Ed.): Alt-Wien. The city that never was. Czernin, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7076-0202-8 , p. 497 ( special exhibition of the Vienna Museum 316), (exhibition catalog, Vienna Museum, November 25, 2004 - March 28, 2005).
- Gloria Sultano: Like intellectual cocaine ... fashion under the swastika. Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85115-197-6
Web links
- Alfred Kunz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kunz, Alfred |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuntz, Alfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian stage and costume designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1894 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd August 1961 |
Place of death | Vienna |