Hans Cürlis

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Hans Cürlis

Writing February 16, 1889

Straelen, Germany

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 an…

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Cinderella

Cinderella

6.6 1922 Movie
The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart

The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart

6.6 1919 Movie
Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf

Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf

7.0 1926 Movie

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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.

Filmography

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  1. 1952
    Drei Meister schneiden in Holz

    Movie Director

  2. 1951
    Der Film entdeckte Kunstwerke indianischer Vorzeit

    Movie Director

  3. 1951
    German Film Award

    TV show Self

  4. 1949
    Schwarz - Weiß - Gelb

    Movie Director

  5. 1946
    Vitamins in the Street

    Movie Director

  6. 1946
    Fleckfieber droht!

    Movie Director

  7. 1942
    Bach - Mozart - Beethoven

    Movie Director

  8. 1934
    Geheimnisse der Mumien

    Movie Director

  9. 1929
    Alceo Dossena

    Movie Director

  10. 1929
    Alexander Calder

    Movie Director

  11. 1929
    The Lower Danube

    Movie Director

  12. 1929
    People and Books

    Movie Director

  13. 1926
    Die Weltgeschichte als Kolonialgeschichte

    Movie Director

  14. 1926
    Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf

    Movie Director

  15. 1924
    Schaffende Hände: Max Oppenheimer

    Movie Director

  16. 1923
    Schaffende Hände: George Grosz

    Movie Director

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  1. 1922
    Cinderella

    Movie Producer

  2. 1922
    Schaffende Hände: Lovis Corinth

    Movie Director

  3. 1919
    The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart

    Movie Producer