Erik Aaes(1899-1966)
- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Set Decorator
Danish set designer and art director, prominent in Scandinavian theatre
and in films both European and American. He attended the Danish Naval
Academy, then attended art school while simultaneously working as an
assistant for Nordisk Films and for the Folketeatret of Copenhagen. He
worked as an assistant to the director Svend Gade on Hamlet (1921) in Berlin,
and while there studied painting at the Kunstgewerbe Museum. He worked
during the early Twenties in the Berlin theatre, then accepted work in
Paris designing sets for avant garde films for directors such as
Alberto Cavalcanti and Jean Renoir. Aaes returned to Denmark in 1933 and worked
simultaneously in films and theatre, both in Europe and abroad,
thereafter.
