Hans Dreier

Hans Dreier (born August 21, 1885 in Bremen , † October 24, 1966 in Bernardsville , New Jersey , USA ) was a German artist and set designer who won three Academy Awards . He worked in Germany and the USA.

Life

Hans Dreier studied architecture and engineering in Munich . Before the First World War , Dreier worked as an engineer for the German government in Cameroon . From 1919 to 1923 Dreier worked for UFA in Berlin and for the European branch of Paramount . In his first year in film, he was involved in seven productions. From 1920 he worked several times for Richard Oswald's films . His buildings are characterized by their particular decorativeness and balance in the arrangement of the room elements.

Dreier left Germany in 1923 and worked in Hollywood as a film architect . From 1923 to 1951 he worked for Paramount . In his early days in particular, he often created buildings for projects by the German-speaking filmmakers Ernst Lubitsch and Josef von Sternberg .

Hans Dreier worked on 486 films. He received 22 nominations for an Oscar .

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences dedicated an exhibition to Hans Dreier in December 2005: Hans Dreier and the Paramount 'Glow' - The Golden Age of the Studio Art Department

Trivia

Paramount Studios named a building on the studio premises after him. This is an administrative building attached to the east side of the studio halls 8 and 9. The three-tier building comprises a ground floor and a first floor above the ground floor, which is supported by supporting beams to the floor and thus has two rows of differently sized office spaces arranged one above the other. Some of these are rented to external companies who can offer their services on site. The Dreier Building has also been seen a few times in various films, such as the film Sunset Boulevard (1950) or The Buster Keaton Story (1957).

Filmography

He was awarded the Oscar in the Best Production Design category for the following three films :

• 1946: The Pirate and the Lady ( Frenchman's Creek ) - Directed by Mitchell Leisen
• 1950: Samson and Delilah ( Samson and Delilah ) - Director: Cecil B. DeMille
• 1950: Sunset Boulevard - Director: Billy Wilder

More movies:

• 1919: The last witness
• 1920: Nachtgestalten - Director: Richard Oswald
• 1920: Kurfürstendamm
• 1920: Der Reigen - Director: Richard Oswald
• 1920: Sicilian blood revenge
• 1921: Danton
• 1921: Lady Hamilton - Directed by Richard Oswald
• 1922: Fridericus Rex - Directed by Arzén von Cserépy
• 1922: Peter the Great - Director: Dimitri Buchowetzki
• 1924: The Forbidden Paradise (Forbidden Paradise) - Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• 1928: His Last Command ( The Last Command ) - Director: Josef von Sternberg
• 1928: Der Patriot ( The Patriot ) - Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• 1928: The Docks of New York ( The Docks of New York ) - Director: Josef von Sternberg
• 1929: Liebesparade ( The Love Parade ) - Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• 1929: Der König der Vagabunden ( The Vagabond King ) - Director: Ludwig Berger
• 1931: The Smiling Lieutenant ( The Smiling Lieutenant ) - Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• 1931: Dishonored ( Dishonored ) - Director: Josef von Sternberg
• 1931: An American Tragedy - Director: Josef von Sternberg
• 1931: The Man Who Driven His Conscience ( Broken Lullaby )
• 1931: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ) - Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
• 1932: Shanghai Express ( Shanghai Express ) - Director: Josef von Sternberg
• 1932: Schönste, liebe mich ( Love Me Tonight ) - Director: Rouben Mamoulian
• 1932: Trouble in Paradise ( Trouble in Paradise ) - Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• 1933: The Marx Brothers at War ( Duck Soup ) - Director: Leo McCarey
• 1933 I'm No Angel - directed by Wesley Ruggles
• 1933: Das Hohe Lied (1933) ( The Song of Songs )
• 1934: Where is Madeleine F.'s child? ( Miss Fane's Baby is Stolen )
• 1934: It's a Gift ( It's a poison ) - Director: Norman Z. McLeod
• 1934: Die Scharlachrote Kaiserin ( The Scarlet Empress ) - Director: Josef von Sternberg
• 1934: Cleopatra - Director: Cecil B. DeMille
• 1935: Man on the Flying Trapeze - Director: William Beaudine
• 1935: The Devil Is a Woman ( The Devil Is a Woman ) - Director: Josef von Sternberg
• 1935: A Butler in America ( Ruggles of Red Gap ) - Directed by Leo McCarey
• 1935: Peter Ibbetson - Director: Henry Hathaway
• 1935: Bengali ( The Lives of a Bengal Lancer ) - Director: Henry Hathaway
• 1936: World champion of all things ( The Milky Way )
• 1936: Pearls for luck ( Desire ) - Director: Frank Borzage
• 1936: The General Died at Dawn ( The General Died at Dawn ) - Director: Lewis Milestone
• 1936: The Jungle Princess ( The Jungle Princess ) - Director: Wilhelm Thiele
• 1937: Engel ( Angel ) - Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• 1938: The Big Broadcast of 1938 - Director: Mitchell Leisen
• 1938: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife ( Bluebeard's Eighth Wife ) - Director: Ernst Lubitsch
• 1939: Three Foreign Legionnaires ( Beau Geste ) - Director: William A. Wellman
• 1939: Union Pacific - Director: Cecil B. DeMille
• 1939: The Cat and the Canary - Directed by Elliott Nugent
• 1939: Geronimo, the Scourge of the Prairie ( Geronimo ) - Director: Paul Sloane
• 1939: Lord of the seas ( Rulers of the Sea ) - Director: Frank Lloyd
• 1939: Pirates in the Caribbean Sea ( Reap the Wild Wind ) - Director: Cecil B. DeMille
• 1940: Arise, My Love - Director: Mitchell Leisen
• 1940: The Great McGinty ( The Great McGinty ) - Director: Preston Sturges
• 1940: Road to Singapore ( Road to Singapore ) - Director: Victor Schertzinger
• 1940: Dr. Zyklop ( Dr. Cyclops ) - Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack
• 1941: The Lady Eve ( The Lady Eve ) - Director: Preston Sturges
• 1941: Road to Zanzibar (Road to Zanzibar) - Director: Victor Schertzinger
• 1941: The Golden Gate ( Hold Back the Dawn ) - Director: Mitchell Leisen
• 1941: Aloma, the daughter of the South Seas ( Aloma of the South Seas ) - Director: Alfred Santell
• 1942: Die Scarenhand ( This Gun for Hire ) - Director: Frank Tuttle
• 1942: The Major and the Minor ( The Major and the Minor ) - Director: Billy Wilder
• 1942: Liebling, zum Dictat ( Take a Letter, Darling ) - Director: Mitchell Leisen
• 1942: Meine Frau, die Hexe ( I Married a Witch ) - Director: René Clair
• 1943: Five Graves to Cairo ( Five Graves to Cairo ) - Director: Billy Wilder
• 1943: For Whom the Bell Tolls ( For Whom the Bell Tolls ) - Director: Sam Wood
• 1944: Dr. Wassells Escape from Java ( The Story of Dr. Wassell ) - directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• 1944: Woman Without a Conscience ( Double Indemnity ) - Director: Billy Wilder
• 1944: A Woman's Dreams ( Lady in the Dark ) - Director: Mitchell Leisen
• 1944: The mysterious guest ( The Uninvited ) - Director: Lewis Allen
• 1944: Ministry of Fear ( Ministry of Fear ) - Director: Fritz Lang
• 1944: Here Come the Waves - Director: Mark Sandrich
• 1945: A Medal for Benny - Director: Irving Pichel
• 1945: Incendiary Blonde - Director: George Marshall
• 1945: The Lost Weekend ( The Lost Weekend ) - Director: Billy Wilder
• 1946: The Blue Dahlia ( The Blue Dahlia ) - Director: George Marshall
• 1947: Fourteen Years Sing-Sing ( I Walk Alone ) - Directed by Byron Haskin
• 1947: Pauline, stop kissing (The Perils of Pauline)
• 1947: Golden Earrings ( Golden Earrings )
• 1947: The Road to Rio (Road to Rio)
• 1948: A Foreign Affair ( A Foreign Affair ) - Director: Billy Wilder
• 1948: You're still alive for 105 minutes ( Sorry, Wrong Number ) - Director: Anatole Litvak
• 1950: Laugh and cry with me (Riding High) - Director: Frank Capra
• 1951: A Place in the Sun ( A Place in the Sun ) - Director: George Stevens

Web links

• Hans Dreier in the Internet Movie Database (English)