Ali Hubert

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Ali Hubert (born December 1, 1878 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary as Albert Hubert ; † June 1, 1940 in Los Angeles , California , USA ) was an Austrian painter and costume designer for the German cinema of the Weimar Republic and in Hollywood .

Life

Ali Hubert was self-taught . At a young age he traveled to Italy , Dalmatia , Spain , Scandinavia and India . Before the First World War he worked as a landscape painter ( sky painting ) and during this time also made contacts with the artist avant-garde. He also had a friendship with Erich Mühsam .

Hubert later made contact with the theater as a costume designer - for example, in 1921 he designed the clothes for Karlheinz Martin's production of Friedrich Schiller's Die Räuber - and a film to which Ernst Lubitsch had brought him towards the end of the First World War . Ali Hubert created a considerable number of imaginative costume creations for Lubitsch's gorgeous productions Carmen , Madame Dubarry , Anna Boleyn and Das Frau des Pharao . As a result of Lubitsch's move to Hollywood (1922), Hubert also worked for other directors, but at the end of 1926 he accepted Lubitsch's invitation to work again as a costume designer for two of his US productions. It was only used once in the German sound film, in the historical drama Luise, Queen of Prussia , where its contemporary (early 19th century) robes for Henny Porten were particularly impressive.

In 1933, a few months after the seizure of power by the National Socialists, Ali Hubert returned to Hollywood, where he primarily for European director exiles ( Joe May , Wilhelm Thiele , Wilhelm Dieterle , Michael Curtiz ) and 1934 for the last time for Lubitsch ( funny The Widow ) became active. His work for Dieterle's productions The Life of Emile Zola and Blockade are particularly noteworthy. Ali Hubert's last job for American cinema was that of a technical advisor on Curtiz's costume-intensive history sheets, Favorite of a Queen and The Lord of the Seven Seas .

Ali Hubert was also the author of the 1930 non-fiction book Hollywood: Legend and Reality , to which Emil Jannings , whom he had dressed several times shortly after the end of the First World War, had written the foreword.

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, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hubert, Albert (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1940
Place of death Los Angeles , California , USA