Jump to content

Rudi Feld

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rudi Feld
Born22 December 1896
Died25 March 1994(1994-03-25) (aged 97)
OccupationArt director
Years active1920–1969 (film)
RelativesFritz Feld (brother)

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

Germany

[edit]

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[1] and then began his early career designing posters for revue and cabaret shows, before graduating to creating film sets.[2] Feld worked in the German film industry during the boom years of the late silent era. He was employed by the German Major studio UFA as head of advertising.[3] He designed the exterior displays of the flagship UFA cinema Ufa-Palast am Zoo for each new premiere.

Exile

[edit]

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.[1] He continued working until 1969.

Partial filmography

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b "MoMA | The Collection | Rudi Feld (American, born Germany. 1896–1994)". MoMA.org. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  2. ^ "The Danger of Bolshevism". 1919. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  3. ^ Ward p.193

Bibliography

[edit]
  • 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.
[edit]