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Rudi Feld

{{Short description|German art director and set designer}}

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| name = Rudi Feld

| birth_date = 22 December 1896

| birth_place = Berlin, German Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|3|25|1896|12|22|df=y}}

| death_place = Santa Monica, California
United States

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| occupation = Art director

| yearsactive = 1920–1969 (film)

| relatives = Fritz Feld (brother)

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Rudi Feld (1896–1994) was a German art director and set designer who worked for many years in the United States.

Germany

Feld was born Rudi Feilchenfeld in Berlin, the elder brother of the actor Fritz Feld. He served in the German army during World War I{{Cite web|title=MoMA {{!}} The Collection {{!}} Rudi Feld (American, born Germany. 1896–1994)|url=https://www.moma.org/s/ge/collection_ge/artist/artist_id-8368.html|access-date=2020-09-08|website=MoMA.org|language=en}} and then began his early career designing posters for revue and cabaret shows, before graduating to creating film sets.{{Cite news|date=1919|title=The Danger of Bolshevism|language=en|url=https://www.wdl.org/en/item/4564/|access-date=2020-09-08}} Feld worked in the German film industry during the boom years of the late silent era. He was employed by German major studio UFA as head of advertising.Ward p.193 He designed the exterior displays of the flagship UFA cinema Ufa-Palast am Zoo for each new premiere.

Exile

Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the Jewish Feld went into exile. Feld settled in Mandatory Palestine, where he briefly owned a nightclub. In 1937, he emigrated to the United States, and from the mid-1940s, he found regular work in the American film industry. Feld was frequently employed by smaller Hollywood studios such as Eagle-Lion during the post-World War II years, and worked as a draftsman for MGM. He continued working until 1969.

Partial filmography

References

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Bibliography

  • Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
  • Ward, Janet. Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany. University of California Press, 2001.

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0270930}}

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Category:1896 births

Category:1994 deaths

Category:German art directors

Category:Film people from Berlin

Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine

Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States

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