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Fritz Maurischat

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Name
  
Fritz Maurischat

Role
  
Production Designer


Art directed
  
Martin Luther

Production designed
  
Titanic

Died
  
December 11, 1986, Wiesbaden, Germany

Awards
  
German Film Award - Honorary Award

Nominations
  
Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White

Similar People
  
Irving Pichel, Jaroslav Pelikan, Hermann Warm, Carl Froelich

Fritz Maurischat (April 27, 1893 - December 11, 1986) was a German production designer. He made his film debut in 1924. Over the next 38 years, he worked on over 70 films, all of them in his native Germany.

He earned an Oscar nomination in 1953 for his work on the film Martin Luther, an American film about Martin Luther made in Germany. He is also noted as the Art Director for the 1943 Nazi propaganda film Titanic.

Selected filmography

  • Taxi at Midnight (1929)
  • The Ship of Lost Souls (1929)
  • The Night Without Pause (1931)
  • The Rebel (1932)
  • The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel (1933)
  • Little Girl, Great Fortune (1933)
  • Anna and Elizabeth (1933)
  • Decoy (1934)
  • A Night of Change (1935)
  • Wedding Night In Paradise (1950)
  • Love's Awakening (1953)
  • Roses from the South (1954)
  • References

    Fritz Maurischat Wikipedia