{{short description|Set decorator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Paul Huldschinsky | image = | birth_date = 18 August 1889 | birth_place = [[Berlin]], Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|1947|2|1|1889|8|18|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Santa Monica, California]], United States | occupation = [[Set decorator]] | years_active = 1940-1947 }}

'''Paul Huldschinsky''' (18 August 1889 &ndash; 1 February 1947) was a German-Jewish architect and [[set decorator]]. After imprisonment in the [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp]] in 1938 he fled [[Nazi Germany]] in 1939 for California. He won an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] in the category [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]] for the film ''[[Gaslight (1944 film)|Gaslight]]''.<ref name="Oscars1945">{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945 |title=The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners |access-date=14 August 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093748/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/17th-winners.html |archive-date=6 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Early life== Paul Huldschinky was born into a family of Jewish heritage known for its contributions to banking, German heavy industry and art. His father, [[Oscar Huldschinsky]] (1846–1931) was a Silesian steel magnate and noted art collector, listed among Berlin's wealthiest millionaires. His mother, Ida Huldschinsky (1860-1912 née Brandeis-Weikersheim) belonged to the Viennese banking family.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Müller, Melissa|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/742252182|title=Lost lives, lost art : Jewish collectors, Nazi art theft and the quest for justice|date=2010|publisher=Frontline|isbn=978-1-84832-577-7|pages=147–155|oclc=742252182}}</ref> Paul had three sisters, Susanne Huldschinsky Reichenheim, Marie Minze Friedheim et Lilly von Klemperer. They, as well as their families, would all be persecuted as Jews when the Nazis came to power.

==Selected filmography== * ''[[Gaslight (1944 film)|Gaslight]]'' (1944)

==See also== * [[List of German-speaking Academy Award winners and nominees]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0401344|Paul Huldschinsky}}

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