Walter Reimann

Walter Reimann

Production designer. Born 2 June 1887 in Berlin, Germany. Died 8 November 1936.

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Born
2 June 1887, Berlin, Germany
Died
8 November 1936

Biography

Walter Reimann (2 June 1887 – 8 November 1936) was a German painter and art director. Born in Berlin, he was associated with the Expressionist group linked to the magazine Der Sturm.

Reimann worked in film from 1919, initially as a set painter. With Hermann Warm and Walter Röhrig he created the distorted, painted sets and costumes for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). He continued as a production designer on German films including The Plague of Florence (1919) and Algol (1920), and briefly worked in Hollywood in the late 1920s. He died in Bad Godesberg.

Films and series