Hans Cürlis

Writing·Feb 16, 1889·Straelen, Germany

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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.

Film	Credit
DDrei Meister schneiden in Holz1952 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
DDer Film entdeckte Kunstwerke indianischer Vorzeit1951 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
SSchwarz - Weiß - Gelb1949 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
VVitamins in the Street1946 · Director	Director
FFleckfieber droht!1946 · Director	Director
BBach - Mozart - Beethoven1942 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
GGeheimnisse der Mumien1934 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
TThe Lower Danube1929 · Director	Director
AAlceo Dossena1929 · Director	Director
AAlexander Calder1929 · Director	Director
PPeople and Books1929 · Director	Director
DDie Weltgeschichte als Kolonialgeschichte1926 · Director	Director
Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf1926 · Director	Director
SSchaffende Hände: Max Oppenheimer1924 · Director	Director
SSchaffende Hände: George Grosz1923 · Director	Director
Cinderella1922 · Producer	Producer
SSchaffende Hände: Lovis Corinth1922 · Director	Director
The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart1919 · Producer	Producer