Hermann Warm

Hermann Warm. Production Designer: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Art director and painter, trained in stage design in Düsseldorf and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin. Hermann Warm was an important figure in the German expressionist cinema of the 1920's and early 30's. He was instrumental in changing traditional concepts of using painted backdrops in favour of three-dimensional constructions. He was also among the first to petition producers to give the...