
Birthday: February 16, 1889
Death: August 06, 1982
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.

January 01, 1946

October 18, 1946

December 12, 1919

January 01, 1922

June 07, 1951

June 23, 1949

January 01, 1929

January 01, 1929

January 01, 1929

January 01, 1922

January 01, 1923

January 01, 1926

January 01, 1924

May 09, 1952

November 18, 1942

January 01, 1929

January 24, 1926

October 04, 1934