Hermann Warm
Georg Hermann Warm ( born May 5, 1889 in Berlin, † May 17 1976 in West Berlin ) was a German art director and production designer.
Life
Georg Hermann Warm attended a School of Applied Arts in Berlin and was at the company Hugo Baruch worked as a scene painter. In 1913, he was first employed as an art director - at Walter Schmidthässlers film The Spy.
By 1915 he was established with the equipment of filmed entertainment in the film industry. After wartime interruption from 1918 he began to work again for the film and took influences of expressionism in his work. Already the film equipment by Otto Ripperts The Plague in Florence ( 1919), which created together with Franz Jaffe, Walter Reimann and Walter Roehrig contributed expressionist trains, but the artistic high point was 1919/20, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Hot designed and designed the space concept for the expressionist film with distorted and crannies and painted light and shadow together with Roehrig and Reimann.
Between 1919 and 1921 Hermann Warm also worked for Fritz Lang, most recently in 1921 with Walter Roehrig for the weary death. After that warm turned to realistic Filmbauten and equipment, as well as in the two Murnau films castle Vogelod (1921) and Phantom ( 1922) identified.
Warms buildings found in the 1920s and early 1930s, also in French-language versions of German films utilization, 1932 he was involved in the German - French co-production Vampyr by Carl Theodor Dreyer. During the period of German National Socialism Hermann Warm was only until 1940 involved in film productions, including three films Veit Harlan and two Hans Steinhoff's. In 1941 he went to Switzerland and returned only in 1947 returned to Germany.
He was able to continue his earlier work in the West German film and until 1960 worked as a Production Designer. In 1965 he received the Film Award for many years of excellent work in the German film.