Biography

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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>