!!!Neher, Caspar Rudolf Ludwig Kaspar

b. Augsburg (Germany), April 11, 1897, 
d. Vienna, June 30, 1962, set designer, worked with Brecht and 
others; 1924-1926 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, 1938 at the 
Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, 1945-1947 in Zurich. From 1947 
worked in Austria, collaboration with O. F.  Schuh, in 
productions for the Salzburg Festival (mostly at the Felsenreitschule) 
and in Vienna at the State Opera. Here he created the so-called 
Viennese Mozart style. Opposed the proscenium stage and advocated bare 
settings, hardly separated from the auditorium. In 1958-1962 Professor 
at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Also librettist, painter and 
director.

!Literature
J. Willett, C. N., Brecht´s Designer, 1986; O. 
Pausch (ed.), C. N., 1987; V. Greisenegger-Georgila (ed.), 
Was ist die Antike wert? Griechen und Roemer auf der Buehne von 
C. N., 1995; C. Tretow (ed.), C. N., 1997.



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