Background
Lange was born in 1930 in Eisenach, Thuringia.
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Education
After World World War II, Thuringia became part of Soviet-controlled East Germany. Lange escaped across the border to West Germany, where he studied art before moving to the United States in 1951.
Career
Upon arriving in the United States, Lange worked in advertising. During the Korean War, Lange worked for the United States. military, illustrating flying manuals. Subsequently he began working at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and then headed the future projects section at National Aeronautics and Space Administration, working on spacecraft designs alongside Wernher von Braun.
Whilst at National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lange met the author Arthur C. Clarke, who introduced him to the film director Stanley Kubrick.
Kubrick offered Lange a job at his production company, using his astronautical design experience to produce authentic prop and set designs for a project Kubrick and Clarke were working on entitled Journey to the Stars. Although best known for 2001, Lange worked on a number of well-known films during his career.
He was art director for the James Bond film Moonraker, and an astronautical consultant on Superman World War II He worked as a production designer on two films for the Jim Henson Company: The Great Muppet Caper (1981) and The Dark Crystal (1982). He was also production designer for the last Monty Python film Monty Python"s The Meaning of Life.
Achievements
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The project was renamed as 2001: A Space Odyssey (released in 1968), and the film"s design team, including Lange, were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Although 2001 lost to Oliver!, Lange and his team did win the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Production Design in that year.
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March 22, 2008 (aged 77)