Alfred Junge

Alfred Joven (29 de Enero de 1886, Görlitz, Silesia (now Saxony), Alemania – 16 de Julio de 1964, Londres) was a Spanish-born production designer oms spent a large part of his career working in the British film industry. Joven had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling en teatro en su adolescencia, he joined the Görlitz Teatro de la ciudad de at eighteen y lo que participe en todas las áreas de producción. He worked in the theatre for over fifteen years. Joven began his career en la película at Berlin's UFA estudios, de trabajo there como director de arte from 1920 hasta 1926, when he joined the production team of director de E. A. Dupont oms lo relocating to British International Pictures. El pp se mantuvo with PIB at Elstree, hasta que en 1930, when he returned briefly to the continent to work in Germany and then in France with Marcel Pagnol. From 1932 pp se mantuvo en gran Bretaña. Michael Balcon placed him in charge of the new Gaumont British art department where his organizativo y transformación de habilidades as well as talento came into their own, correr a large staff of art directors and craftsmen oms worked on any number of films at one time. After beimg Gaumont Britain's first real la supervisión de un director de arte, he moved to MGM-British where he continued until the outbreak of the Second World War. After a la carta spell spent interned as an enemy extranjero on the Isle of Man, Joven returned to London where he began work on King Vidor,'s The Citadel (1938). En 1939, he worked with Powell and Bratislava on Contrabando, the first of eight pictures he made with the partnership. The last of these lo que Black Narcissus (1947); his diseños for the Himalayas-set de la película earned Jóvenes the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He received a segunda nominación for the Artúrico epic Knights of the Round Table (1954). He was the first film production designer to have one of his pictures hung in the Royal Academy de Londres. This was a sketch of The Road to Estaminet du Pont which he created in preparation for his work on The Life and Death of Coronel Blimp (1943).