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Helmut Jürgens (19 June 1902 – 29 August 1963) was a
Helmut Jürgens (19 June 1902 – 29 August 1963) was a German
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scenic designer and costume designer.
Life and work
Born inHöxter
Höxter () is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the left bank of the river Weser, 52 km north of Kassel in the centre of the Weser Uplands. The main town's population is around 15,000, and with outlying centres, about 30,0 ...
, Westphalia, Jürgens attended high school there and in Warburg
Warburg (; Westphalian: ''Warberich'' or ''Warborg'') is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany on the river Diemel near the three-state point shared by Hessen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in Höxter distri ...
, He undertook an apprenticeship
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as a church and decorating painter from 1920 to 1923, followed by studying at the Kunstgewerbeschule
A Kunstgewerbeschule (English: ''School of Arts and Crafts'' or S''chool of Applied Arts'') was a type of vocational arts school that existed in German-speaking countries from the mid-19th century. The term Werkkunstschule was also used for thes ...
(School of applied arts) in Kassel from 1923 to 1924 and the ''Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová ...
'' from 1924 to 1926. His first independent pieces were staged from 1926 to 1930 in Krefeld, Mönchen-Gladbach and Aachen.
From 1930 to 1938, Helmut Jürgens became director of sets of the municipal theaters of Düsseldorf. From 1938 until the end of World War II, he was director of sets of the municipal theaters in Frankfurt am Main, with guest engagements in Barcelona, Budapest, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Prague.
Jürgens died in Munich
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