Carl Jules Weyl

Carl Jules Weyl (6 December 1890 – 12 July 1948) was a German architect and art director. He designed or co-designed six contributing properties in the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District,^[3] won a Best Art Direction Oscar for The Adventures of Robin Hood,^[4] and was nominated in the same category for Mission to Moscow.^[5]

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Carl Jules Weyl

Born	(1890-12-06)6 December 1890 Stuttgart, Germany
Died	12 July 1948(1948-07-12) (aged 57) Los Angeles, California
Other names	Karl Felix Julius Weyl ^[1]
Occupation(s)	Architect Art director
Years active	1926–1929 (architect) 1930–1947 (art director)
Spouse	Irma Lois Chase (divorced)^[2]

Early life and education

Weyl was born in Stuttgart, Germany. His father, Karl Friedrich Weyl, was an architect and field engineer of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel through the Alps. Carl Jules Weyl studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris after architectural training in Berlin, Strasbourg, and Munich.^[6] He served as a first lieutenant of infantry in the German Reichswehr, according to his World War I draft registration card.^{[citation needed]}

Weyl immigrated to the US on 31 March 1912, according to his 1933 petition for citizenship, on the SS Königin Luise (1896).

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Weyl worked as an architect in California, first for John W. Reid Jr. in San Francisco, then in Los Angeles after he moved there in 1923.

When the Great Depression hit and building commissions dried up, Weyl joined Cecil B. DeMille Productions as an art director,^[7] then he joined Warner Brothers in the same position. Weyl initially worked as an assistant to Anton Grot and Robert M. Haas. His first set for Warner Bros was the fountain in Footlight Parade.