{{short description|Production designer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = | name = Paul Markwitz | birth_date = 16 July 1908 | birth_place = Berlin, German Empire | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1968|3|19|1908|7|16}} | death_place = Berlin, West Germany | occupation = Production designer<br>Art director<br>Set decorator | years_active = 1935-1967 }}
'''Paul Markwitz''' (16 July 1908 – 19 March 1968)<ref>Kay Weniger: Das große Personenlexikon des Films Volume 5, Berlin 2001, {{ISBN|3-89602-340-3}}, pg. 281f</ref> was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. He worked on over 50 films between 1935 and 1967.<ref name="IMDb.com">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0549048/ |title=IMDb.com: Paul Markwitz |access-date=21 December 2008|work=IMDb.com}}</ref> He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film ''Martin Luther''.<ref name="Oscars1954">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954 |title=The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners |access-date=20 August 2011|work=oscars.org| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093858/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/26th-winners.html| archive-date= 6 July 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="allmovie.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/paul-markwitz-169538/awards |title=AllMovie: Paul Markwitz |access-date=26 September 2010|work=allmovie.com}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== {{Div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden'' (1935) * ''Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine'' (1936) * ''Meine Frau, die Perle'' (1936) * ''Sergeant Berry'' (1938) * ''The Holm Murder Case'' (1938) * ''A Man Astray'' (1940) * ''Encounter with Werther'' (1949) * ''Wedding Night In Paradise'' (1950) * ''When a Woman Loves'' (1950) * ''Martin Luther'' (1953) * ''Spring Song'' (1954) * ''Three from Variety'' (1954) * ''Confession Under Four Eyes'' (1954) * ''The Gypsy Baron'' (1954) * ''The Inn on the Lahn'' (1955) * ''I Know What I'm Living For'' (1955) * ''Black Forest Melody'' (1956) * ''Spy for Germany'' (1956) * ''Precocious Youth'' (1957) * ''The Simple Girl'' (1957) * ''Widower with Five Daughters'' (1957) * ''The Count of Luxemburg'' (1957) * ''Munchhausen in Africa'' (1958) * ''The Star of Santa Clara'' (1958) * ''The Day the Rains Came'' (1959) * ''Peter Shoots Down the Bird'' (1959) * ''Adieu, Lebewohl, Goodbye'' (1961) * ''Always Trouble with the Bed'' (1961) * ''The Secret of the Black Trunk'' (1962) * ''The Terror of Doctor Mabuse'' (1962) * ''Café Oriental'' (1962) * ''Doctor Sibelius'' (1962) {{Div col end}}
==See also== * List of German-speaking Academy Award winners and nominees
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0549048|Paul Markwitz}}
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