German-American animator, filmmaker, and painter (1900–1967)
Oskar Fischinger
Born
Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger
(1900-06-22)22 June 1900
Gelnhausen, German Empire
Died
31 January 1967(1967-01-31) (aged 66)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Abstract animator, filmmaker, painter
Years active
1920–1947
Notable work
Motion Painting No. 1
Spouse
Elfriede Fischinger (1932–1967; his death)
Children
5
Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger (June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos. He created special effects for Fritz Lang's 1929 Woman in the Moon, one of the first sci-fi rocket films, and influenced Disney's Fantasia. He made over 50 short films and painted around 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries, and collections worldwide. Among his film works is Motion Painting No. 1 (1947), which is now listed on the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.
Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger (June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract...
Salvador Dalí's Un chien andalou (1929). Hans Richter's animated shorts, OskarFischinger's abstract films, and Len Lye's GPO films are examples of more abstract...
by Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, and Cheryl Crawford, and the same year OskarFischinger filmed Motion Painting No. 1. In 1943, Ossessione was screened in Italy...
1899 – Michał Kalecki, Polish economist and academic (d. 1970) 1900 – OskarFischinger, German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter (d. 1967)...
principal published works concerned abstract filmmaker and painter OskarFischinger. He also wrote extensively on other visual music artists who worked...
mid-1930s featuring works by pioneer animators Mary Ellen Bute and OskarFischinger) and social realist dramas. Throughout the middle of the 1990s, the...
press photos were inspired by the work of German-American animator OskarFischinger and the comic book series Black Hole by American cartoonist Charles...
paintings, dance, music and films in 1916. However, he was a mentor to OskarFischinger who started to do experimental animation during the first screening...
Famous visual music artists include Mary Ellen Bute, Jordan Belson, OskarFischinger, Norman McLaren, John Whitney Sr., and Thomas Wilfred, plus a number...
within. Pioneered in both clay and blocks of wax by German animator OskarFischinger during the 1920s and 1930s, the technique was revived and highly refined...
experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and OskarFischinger. He is best known for directing the semi-documentary 'city symphony'...
of the 1920s by Walther Ruttmann, Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and OskarFischinger. The history of motion graphics is closely related to the history of...
22, 2017, to celebrate what would have been the 117th birthday of OskarFischinger, a musician, Google released an interactive fullscreen Doodle that...
area such as the optical soundtrack work of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and OskarFischinger, as well as the vinyl record manipulations of John Cage and Christian...
transcriptions. Uncredited roles include Jack Mulhall. German animator OskarFischinger was hired to create an animation sequence in Technicolor. However,...
use the attic of the garage in his vegetable garden as their studio. OskarFischinger made a wax-slicing machine for them which was used to visualize magic...
the 1930s and 1940s, it was used primarily in animation, notably by OskarFischinger (Muratti Gets in the Act, 1934; Composition in Blue, 1935), Len Lye...
artists such as Walter Ruttmann, Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and OskarFischinger made short abstract animations which proved influential. Although some...
animators included Mary Ellen Bute, John Whitney, Harry Everett Smith and OskarFischinger alongside earlier efforts of what would later become UPA. In 1959,...
found its fulfillment in animated abstract films by artists such as OskarFischinger, Len Lye and Norman McLaren; but long before them, many people built...
Feiss Sam Fell Paul Fierlinger Don Figlozzi David Firth David Fine OskarFischinger Dave Fleischer Max Fleischer Friz Freleng Lillian Friedman Kazuhiro...
Animators and directors of experimental films such as; Lotte Reiniger, OskarFischinger and Walter Ruttmann, were also very active in Germany in the 1920s...
in particular by the abstract cinema of Len Lye, Norman McLaren and OskarFischinger. Unlike most light paintings where images are created by "drawing"...
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