Born in Warsaw, Poland. Influential art director who left Russia after the 1917 revolution and, after a spell in Germany, joined Alexandre Kamenka's Société des Films Albatros in 1924. Starting out as an assistant to Alberto Cavalcanti, Meerson went on to transform French production design with his work on films by René Clair (À NOUS LA LIBERTÉ, LE MILLION, 1931, etc.) and Jacques Feyder (CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS, 1935/KERMESSE HEROIQUE). Meerson was a major influence on the poetic realism movement of which his apprentice, Alexandre Trauner, would become the preeminent designer. He worked from 1936 for Alexander Korda in London, but, unhappy with Korda's Hollywood-style production methods, was planning to return to France when he died of meningitis at the age of 38.    Nominated for Interior Decoration 1931-32: À NOUS LA LIBERTÉ 1 nomination