Stuart Wurtzel

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Stuart Wurtzel (born August 9, 1940 in Newark , New Jersey , United States ) is an American film architect .

Life

Wurtzel trained in design at Carnegie Mellon University and began his professional career as a production designer at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco . From the summer of 1962 he worked at New York venues for a good ten years, where he designed the sets for the plays A Toy for the Clowns, Hamlet, Tiny Alice, A Flea in Her Ear and Trumpets and Drums . Through his theatrical work Wurtzel met the director Joan Micklin Silver , who let him design the film structures for her first cinema director, Hester Street, which was highly acclaimed by critics .

“Stuart Wurtzel proved above all a sure hand in the design of personal, private spaces and worlds, often microcosms with a Jewish-urban character on the east coast and in the provinces.” For one of these works, Woody Allen's Hannah and her sisters received he received an Oscar nomination in 1987 . Other important films that lived on Wurtzel's designs were the musical Hair , the revolutionary adventure Old Gringo , the 60s nostalgia mermaids kiss better and a number of romantic comedies of the new millennium.

Stuart Wurtzel is married to his colleague Patrizia von Brandenstein .

Filmography

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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 473.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 473.

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personal data
SURNAME Wurtzel, Stuart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey , United States