Wilhelm Vorwerg
- Category : 1899-births
- Type : MGP
- Profile : 1/4 - Investigating / Opportunist
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX The Sphinx 3
Biography
German art director who designed the sets for over fifty films including a number of Rialto Film's series of Edgar Wallace adaptations in the 1960s. He worked with Walter Kutz on these films.
The son of a painter he received artistic training at the Dresden Art Academy from 1919. He had been living in Berlin since 1920 and worked as a set designer for Max Reinhardt.
Vorwerg first entered the film industry as a set painter, for example in Fridericus (1936). He had been a film set designer at Terra since 1938, initially in collaboration with Hans Sohnle. After the War he worked for DEFA until 1952.
Wilhelm Vorwerg died on 15 July 1990 in Cologne at age 90.