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Filmmaker · Austria

Kurt Steinwendner

Died in 1992

Kurt Steinwendner (1920-1992), born in Vienna, a sculptor and photographer, came to cinema after the war, first as a set designer, then in 1951 directed an avant-garde short film honoured in Venice and Edinburgh. After the commercial failure of his feature films, he turned to industrial and advertising film, which allowed him to finance experimental and documentary short films, one of which won a Silver Bear in Berlin in 1962. Under the name Curt Stenvert, he then made a career as a painter and installation artist, exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1966 and died in Cologne.

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