Kurt Richter (art director)

Kurt Richter (1885–1960) was an Austrian art director of the silent era. He designed the sets for more than a hundred films during his career, including a number made by the leading German company UFA where he frequently collaborated with director Ernst Lubitsch.

Kurt Richter
Born	1885 Krems an der Donau, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	1960 Salzburg, Austria
Occupation	Art director
Years active	1916-1929 (film)

Selected filmography

• The White Terror (1917)
• Lulu (1917)
• The Ballet Girl (1918)
• The Toboggan Cavalier (1918)
• Struggling Souls (1918)
• I Don't Want to Be a Man (1918)
• The Rosentopf Case (1918)
• The Lady, the Devil and the Model (1918)
• The Seeds of Life (1918)
• The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers (1919)
• The Dagger of Malaya (1919)
• The Merry Husband (1919)
• A Drive into the Blue (1919)
• Madame DuBarry (1919)
• The Oyster Princess (1919)
• The Howling Wolf (1919)
• The Panther Bride (1919)
• The Galley Slave (1919)
• The Woman at the Crossroads (1919)
• Countess Doddy (1919)
• The Daughter of Mehemed (1919)
• The Man of Action (1919)
• Indian Revenge (1920)
• Sumurun (1920)
• Mascotte (1920)
• Anna Boleyn (1920)
• The Lady in Black (1920)
• The Marquise of Armiani (1920)
• Rebel Liesel (1920)
• Love at the Wheel (1921)
• The Sins of the Mother (1921)
• The Lost Shadow (1921)
• The Sacrifice of Ellen Larsen (1921)
• The Secret of the Mummy (1921)
• Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1921)
• The Bull of Olivera (1921)
• Monna Vanna (1922)
• Maciste and the Javanese (1922)
• The Girl with the Mask (1922)
• A Night's Adventure (1923)
• All for Money (1923)
• Count Cohn (1923)
• The House by the Sea (1924)
• The Fake Emir (1924)
• The Creature (1924)
• The Woman with That Certain Something (1925)
• Love and Trumpets (1925)
• A Woman for 24 Hours (1925)
• The Love Trap (1925)
• Rags and Silk (1925)
• Adventure on the Night Express (1925)
• The Girl on the Road (1925)
• The Marriage Swindler (1925)
• The Black Pierrot (1926)
• Princess Trulala (1926)
• I Stand in the Dark Midnight (1927)
• Marie's Soldier (1927)
• A Day of Roses in August (1927)
• Circus Beely (1927)
• The Awakening of Woman (1927)
• Serenissimus and the Last Virgin (1928)
• Honeymoon (1928)
• The Woman from Till 12 (1928)
• He Goes Right, She Goes Left! (1928)
• It Attracted Three Fellows (1928)
• Polish Economy (1928)
• In Werder the Trees are in Bloom (1928)
• Dive (1929)
• What a Woman Dreams of in Springtime (1929)

Bibliography

• Hake, Sabine. Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch. Princeton University Press, 1992.

External links

• Kurt Richter at IMDb