Franz Meschkan

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Franz Meschkan (born May 21, 1881 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † November 6, 1951 in Vienna, Austria ) was an Austrian prop master , set designer and film architect .

Live and act

Meschkan received practical training at the turn of the century and worked as a prop master, outfitter and stage designer at various venues in Vienna during the first two decades of the 20th century. For a time he was hired by the German People's Theater as a stage inspector and chief engineer.

Shortly after the end of the First World War , Meschkan began designing sets for the film. Meschkan designed, often in collaboration with colleagues, film structures in a wide variety of genres, including comedies, melodramas, novel adaptations and costume fabrics. Shortly after the age of talkies, Franz Meschkan returned to the theater, but in the mid-1930s he again worked intensively for Austrian cinema productions for a short time.

Meschkan was buried four days after his death at the age of 70 in the Hütteldorf cemetery in Vienna .

Filmography

as a film architect, unless otherwise stated

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 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 411.

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personal data
SURNAME Meschkan, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian prop master, set designer and film architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1951
Place of death Vienna , Austria