Heinrich Beisenherz (1891 – 1977) was a German art director and painter.
[1] Heinrich Beisenherz was the son of a carpenter who after training as an artist, worked in the field of arts and crafts and decorative painting, interrupted only by military service from 1913 to 1917.
In the early 1920s, he designed some films for the first time, but continued to work as an artist.
He was then invited to the Soviet Union by the Ukrainian Photo and Cinema Administration (ВУФКУ) and worked from 1926 to 1928 in the Odessa Film Studios under the Russified name Georgiy Bayzengerts (Ru: Георгий Байзенгерц).
There he created the sets for comedies by and with Heinz Rühmann, but also for Nazi propaganda films such as Wunschkonzert and Spähtrupp Hallgarten.