Hans Cürlis
Writing
- Born
- February 16, 1889 · Straelen, Germany
- Died
- August 6, 1982 (age 93)
Hans Cürlis filmed Kandinsky, Grosz, Pechstein, Dix, Kollwitz, Liebermann, and Calder at work, many years before Paul Hasaert’s Visite à Picasso. Cürlis had studed with Wölflin and had written his thesis on Dürer. In 1919 he established the Institut für Kulturforschung, "the first German scientific institution which consciously selected the cinema as a form of expression through the results of its own work" (Cürlis, 1929). That he is not considering simply a form of documentation is demonstrated by the fact that among his first collaborators can be listed animation and silhouette artists such as Bartosch, Carl Koch, Lotte Reiniger, and Toni Rabold. After a film on African sculpture and a number of geographical documentaries, in 1922 he began the series Schaffende Hände: short films not "on art" so much as the physical process of the creation of a work of art turned into cinema.
Known for
Behind the camera18
- 1952Drei Meister schneiden in Holz Director, Writer
- 1951Der Film entdeckte Kunstwerke indianischer Vorzeit Director, Writer
- 1949Schwarz - Weiß - Gelb Director, Writer
- 1946Vitamins in the Street Director
- 1946Fleckfieber droht! Director
- 1942Bach - Mozart - Beethoven Director, Writer
- 1934Geheimnisse der Mumien Director, Writer
- 1929The Lower Danube Director
- 1929Alexander Calder Director
- 1929