German production designer. He first worked at the Vilnius Army Theatre in 1916, where he joined the team of art directors
Hermann Warm and
Walter Röhrig. In 1919, he entered films as a set painter, later advancing to production design. In collaboration with Warm and Röhrig, he worked on the design for
Fritz Lang's classic 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)_. He also had a brief spell in Hollywood, designing an alpine village in the Californian desert for
Ernst Lubitsch's
Eternal Love (1929).