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Lazare Meerson
Influential and highly imaginative art director who left Russia after the revolution and, after a spell in Germany, joined Alexandre Kamenka's Societe des Films Albatros in 1924. Starting out as an assistant to Alberto Cavalcanti, Meerson went on to transform French production design with his work on films by Rene Clair ("A Nous La Liberte" 1931, "Le Million" 1932, etc.) and Jacques Feyder ("La Kermesse Heroique" 1935). Meerson was a major influence on the "poetic realism" movement of which his apprentice, Alexandre Trauner, would become the preeminent designer. He worked from 1936 for Alexander Korda but, unhappy with Korda's Hollywood-style production methods, was planning to to return to France when he died of meningitis at the age of 38.
