Robert Neppach

Robert Neppach (2 March 1890 – 18 August 1939) was an Austrian architect, film producer and art director.

[1] Neppach was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training.

In May 1933, his first wife Nelly, a successful tennis player, took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.

With his Jewish wife, life grew increasingly difficult for him under the Nazis.

They lived apart and Neppach's wife, who had an affair with Ezio Pinza filed for divorce.