Jacques Krauss

{{Short description|French art director}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacques Krauss | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 21 October 1900 | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = 8 June 1957 (aged 56) | death_place = Paris, France | other_names = | occupation = Art director | years_active = 1934–1957 | father = Henry Krauss }} '''Jacques Krauss''' (21 October 1900 – 8 June 1957) was a French art director. He had a notable influence on the visual look of French poetic realist films before the Second World War, due to his work with Julien Duvivier.<ref>Andrew p.186</ref>

He was born in Paris, the son of the actor Henry Krauss.

==Selected filmography== * ''If I Were Boss'' (1934) * ''Maria Chapdelaine'' (1934) * ''A Rare Bird'' (1935) * ''Thirteen Days of Love'' (1935) * ''La Bandera'' (1935) * ''They Were Five'' (1936) * ''Claudine at School'' (1937) * ''The Man of the Hour'' (1937) * ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937) * ''Woman of Malacca'' (1937) * ''Another World'' (1937) * ''A Woman of No Importance'' (1937) * ''The Courier of Lyon'' (1937) * ''The Curtain Rises'' (1938) * ''Final Accord'' (1938) * ''The End of the Day'' (1939) * ''The Phantom Carriage'' (1939) * ''Madame Sans-Gêne'' (1941) * ''Monsieur La Souris'' (1942) * ''Chiffon's Wedding'' (1942) * ''Love Letters'' (1942) * ''Romance for Three'' (1942) * ''The Phantom Baron'' (1943) * ''Sylvie and the Ghost'' (1946) * ''Captain Blomet'' (1947) * ''The Fugitive'' (1947) * ''The Adventures of Casanova'' (1947) * ''Monseigneur'' (1949) * ''Du Guesclin'' (1949) * ''Darling Caroline'' (1951) * ''Gigolo'' (1951) * ''A Caprice of Darling Caroline'' (1953) * ''Caroline and the Rebels'' (1955) * ''Élisa'' (1957)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Dudley Andrew. ''Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film''. Princeton University Press, 1995.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0470308}}

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