Gustav Abel (film architect)

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Gustav Abel (born January 25, 1902 in Vienna ; † June 2, 1963 there ) was an Austrian film architect and set designer . He created buildings for a total of 226 film productions.

Abel initially studied from 1917 to 1922 at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna under Josef Hoffmann , Oskar Strnad and Carl Witzmann . He then worked for several years as an equipment assistant in Vienna , Berlin and Prague . In 1937 he moved to Rome and joined the Scalera film production company . By 1943 he was involved as a film architect in 22 major productions, including Tosca , Kapitän Tempesta and Die Glasbrücke . He also directed the feature film The Rainbow .

In 1944 he returned to Vienna and until 1955 took on a teaching position for the subject of film imaging at the Academy of Fine Arts . At the same time, the buildings for a further series of Austrian feature films were built, such as Verlorenes Rennen (1948), Fairy Tales of Luck (1949), The Fourth Commandment (1950), The Peasant Rebel (1953) and The Sputtering (1953).

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SURNAME Abel, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film architect and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1963
Place of death Vienna