Cooper Hewitt says...
Berger, an Austrian architect and art director for films, was at first involved in the socialist housing construction projects of Rotes Wien (Red Vienna). He later worked art directing German-language films at Sascha-Film in 1920. Berger and his brother, Josef Berger, co-founded the Bimini-Werkstätten, which produced famed examples of blown and lampworked glass in Vienna. Berger was active designing textiles at the Wiener Werkstätte between 1923–36. He was the co-founder and professor at the Lehrinstitut für Tonfilmkunst (Institute for Sound-Film) in Vienna in 1933. After 1936, he immigrated to the Soviet Union and became active as an art director for the Soviet film company Meschrapom-Filmstudios. Berger worked for the rest of his life under the name Artur Semenovič in Moscow.
Literature: Astrid Gmeiner and Gottfried Pirhofer. Der Österreichische Werkbund. Vienna: Boehlau, 1985.
