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Alexandre Trauner (born Sándor Trau; 3 August 1906 in Budapest, Hungary – 5 December 1993 in Omonville-la-Petite, France) was a Hungarian film production designer. After studying painting at Hungarian Royal Drawing School , he left the country in 1929, fleeing from the antisemitic government of Admiral Horthy . [1]
Alexandre Trauner. Art Director: The Apartment. Hungarian-born Alexandre Trauner came to Paris in 1929 to escape the anti-semitic Horty regime in his native country, and to paint. Instead, he became involved in the film industry as an assistant to the famous art director Lazare Meerson.
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- Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
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- Omonville-la-Petite, Manche, France
Apr 11, 2024 · Alexandre Trauner was a Hungarian-born French motion-picture art director whose studio-built sets—the fairground in Quai des brumes (1938; Port of Shadows), the St. Martin Canal in Hotel du Nord (1938), the metro station in Les Portes de la nuit (1946; Gates of Night)—formed the moviegoing public’s.
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Dec 8, 1993 · Alexandre Trauner, 87, the dean of European art directors whose films ranged from “Children of Paradise” and Orson Welles’ “Othello” to his Oscar-winning work on “The Apartment,” died Dec. 5 in...
Alexandre Trauner is known as an Production Design, Art Direction, Actor, Producer, Associate Producer, and Head Decorator. Some of his work includes The Apartment, Witness for the Prosecution, The Man Who Would Be King, How to Steal a Million, Rififi, Subway, Irma la Douce, and Children of Paradise.
Trauner's hyper-real production designs are reworked into a modern aesthetic of the spectacular, and underline the lasting importance of his decor in establishing mood and paraphrasing the narrative.
Birthday: Aug 3, 1906. Birthplace: Budapest, Austria-Hungary. Renowned, influential art director, a key figure of the French "poetic realism" movement which began in the mid-1930s.
