Influential German art director, the son of a brewer. Herlth studied at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin. Between 1916 and 1918, he designed his first theatrical sets during wartime army service in Vilnius, collaborating with the set designer Hermann Warm. From 1922, he worked in tandem with Walter Röhrig on some of the most seminal ...
Production Designer, Art Director, Costume Designer
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Brother of production designer Kurt Herlth.
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Together with Walter Röhrig he also realised his only movie as a director with "Hans im Glück" (36). They both also wrote the script and created the set.
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Only from 1916 he was able to get a job as a coulisse decorator for the theater and from 1920 he broadened his activity to the film business.
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Before he was able to start his professional life he was drafted to the army at the beginning of World War I.
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His last works came in the 60s into being, often for TV productions.
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When Herlth and Walter Röhrig finished their collaboration Robert Herlth left the Ufa and joined Tobis - two years later followed the change to Terra Film - and he was the art director of numerous popular movies again.
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Robert Herlth was able to continue his career after the war. First he created again coulisses for the theater before he got challenging engagements in the underused film business again.
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The production designer Robert Herlth - who worked together with the production designer Walter Röhrig from 1920 to 1936 - completed his education in painting at the Hochschule of fine arts.
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He was also able to set priorities as a production designer during the sound film era of the 30s.