Robert Neppach
Robert Neppach | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 March 1890 |
| Died | 18 August 1939 |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer Art director |
| Years active | 1919-1937 (film) |
Robert Neppach (1890–1939) was an Austrian architect, film producer and art director. Neppach worked from 1919 in the German film industry. He oversaw the art direction of over eighty films during his career, including F.W. Murnau's Desire (1921) and Richard Oswald's Lucrezia Borgia (1922).[1] Neppach was comparitively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training.[2]
In 1932 he switched to concentrate on film production, but life grew increasingly difficult for him under the Nazis because he had a Jewish wife. He began to work as an architect again and the couple emigrated to Switzerland. In 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, he shot himself and his wife.
Selected filmography
Art director
- The Rats (1921)
- Desire (1921)
- Lucrezia Borgia (1922)
- Earth Spirit (1923)
- Bismarck (1925)
- Der Sohn des Hannibal (1926)
- At the Edge of the World (1927)
- Vienna, City of My Dreams (1928)
- The Woman One Longs For (1929)
- Father and Son (1929)
- The Green Monocle (1929)
- My Daughter's Tutor (1929)
- Katharina Knie (1929)
- Die Abenteurerin von Tunis (1931)
- Panic in Chicago (1931)
Producer
- Punks kommt aus Amerika (1935)
- Kater Lampe (1936)
- Hilde Petersen postlagernd (1936)
References
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim, Harris,Sue & Street, Sarah. Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema. Amsterdam University Press, 2007.
- Eisner, Lotte H. The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt. University of California Press, 2008.
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