Stuart Wurtzel
Stuart Wurtzel ( born August 9, 1940 in Newark, New Jersey, United States) is an American art director.
Life
Wurtzel was educated at Carnegie Mellon University in Design and began his career as a set designer at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. Since the summer of 1962, he was a good ten years worked at New York venues and designed there sets the stage to pieces A Toy for the Clowns, Hamlet, Tiny Alice, A Flea in Her Ear and Trumpets and drums. Through his theater activity Wurtzel met the director Joan Micklin Silver know that made him design the Filmbauten for their critically- acclaimed, first feature directed by Hester Street.
" Stuart Wurtzel proved especially a safe hand in the design of personal, private spaces and worlds, often shaped by Judeo- urban character microcosms on the east coast and in the provinces. " For this work, Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters, received in 1987 he nominated for an Oscar. Other important films that lived on Wurtzels designs were the musical Hair, the revolution Adventure Old Gringo, the 60s nostalgia Mermaids better and a series of romantic comedies of the new millennium.
Stuart Wurtzel is married to fellow professionals Patrizia von Brandenstein.