First he worked as an assistant for different movies but when he moved from Austria to Germany he met the film director Arnold Fanck.
Fanck engaged him for some of his very popular movies located in the mountains and Leopold Blonder created for him and other directors the decor for "Der Berg des Schicksals" (1924), "Der heilige Berg" (26), "Ramper, der Tiermensch" (1927), "Manege" (1928) and "Die Todesfahrt im Weltrekord" (1929).