Otto Hunte
Otto Joachim Gottlieb Hunte ( born January 9, 1881 in Hamburg, † December 28, 1960 in Potsdam ) was a German art director.
Life
He studied in Hamburg architecture and painting, and until 1918 was active as a painter. From 1919 he was employed by the production company of Joe May as a costume and set designer. He designed the costumes for the two-part The Spiders and The Indian Tomb and designed together with Karl Vollbrecht, Martin Jacoby -Boy and Erich Kettelhut the film sets the adventure film series The mistress of the world.
In the 1920s, he worked together with colleagues Erich Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht, Emil Hasler and Victor Trivas. Hunte is characterized partly responsible for the construction of most of the films of Fritz Lang in Germany. Starting from the expressionist style, especially the light and shadow design, he found more and more to the filmic material adequate room designs. His most important work was the buildings to Metropolis. He was the leader of the team. With Erich Kettelhut and Karl Vollbrecht he created images still influence today the architectural discussion.
Just as Karl Vollbrecht Otto Hunte was involved in the time of National Socialism in addition to entertainment films in the production of Veit Harlan's Jud Suss. After the war he worked briefly at the DEFA and retired in 1947 by the film work back.