10 Facts About Wiard Ihnen

Wiard Boppo "Bill" Ihnen was an American art director.

Wiard Ihnen was active from 1919 to 1960 and won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction for Wilson and Blood on the Sun.

Wiard Ihnen's father, Henry S Ihnen, was an architect and painter.

Wiard Ihnen worked for a time as the assistant to a prominent New York architect and studied architecture at Columbia University.

Wiard Ihnen studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, spent a year at the art centers of Spain and France, and studied color and technique at the University of Mexico.

Wiard Ihnen drew attention for his design of "fantastically exotic" African nightclub in the film.

Wiard Ihnen received his first Academy Awards nomination for Best Art Direction on Every Day's a Holiday.

Wiard Ihnen worked as the associate art director on John Ford's Stagecoach which won the Academy Award for art direction for Alexander Toluboff.

In 1940, Wiard Ihnen was married in Las Vegas to Hollywood dress designer Edith Head.

Wiard Ihnen is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, next to his wife.