Helmut Nentwig

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Helmut Nentwig (born January 21, 1916 in Breslau ; † December 29, 2007 in Baden-Württemberg ) was a German painter , film architect and television set designer .

biography

Born in Lower Silesia, he trained as a painter in the master school in his native city of Wroclaw and excelled there as a stage painter at the opera. Before he was drafted into the labor service, Nentwig attended the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin . Moved to Flensburg at the end of the war in 1945 , he initially worked as a portrait painter, but also designed book covers for publishers and gave life drawing lessons. Nentwig also took courses at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . About Plön , where he u. a. made a portrait of Great Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery , Nentwig came to Hamburg . There he was engaged as a theater painter at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus from 1948 to 1952 , after which he worked freelance in the Hanseatic city.

Helmut Nentwig began filming in 1954 at the side of his experienced colleague Karl Weber . Nentwig's most lavish cinema work in 1958 was the co-design (at the side of Willi Schatz ) of the numerous and varied decorations for Fritz Lang's double feature The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb . He was also involved in Wilhelm Dieterle's double feature Mistress of the World , such as Lang's film, an exotic adventure story set in the Far East. In the early 1960s Nentwig cooperated several times with his colleague Paul Markwitz .

After leaving film in 1964, he went to Baden-Baden and became a production designer for Südwestfunk . In this capacity, Nentwig created various designs for television productions, including the series Salto Mortale , which was extremely popular in the late 1960s . He ended his professional career in 1978 after having built the structures for a number of other SWF series, including Eurogang and MS Franziska .

Then Nentwig retired into private life and spent his twilight years in Baden-Baden. Shortly after Christmas 2007 he died at the age of 91; probably there, but possibly also in Stuttgart.

Filmography (cinema only)

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. 638.

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personal data
SURNAME Nentwig, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, film architect and production designer for television
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2007
Place of death Baden-Württemberg