Ladislaus Tuszyński

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Ladislaus Tuszyński (born June 20, 1876 in Lemberg , Galicia , † September 21, 1943 in Vienna ) was an Austrian caricaturist , illustrator and animator .

As the illustrator of the front page of the Kronen Zeitung for a period of around 40 years, he achieved great fame. In total, he created around 12,000 illustrations and caricatures in his life, also for other print media. In addition to Peter Eng and Louis Seel , he was also responsible for most of the animation film production for Austrian silent films.

Live and act

Poster for the Kronen Zeitung (1915)

Ladislaus Tuszyński was a commercial clerk before he worked as an illustrator for the weekly newspaper Wiener Bilder in 1900 . A few years later he became an illustrator and caricaturist at the Wiener Kronen Zeitung , which made him well known. For a while he also illustrated the Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung . Tuszyński also appeared as a court draftsman. His frequently used pseudonym was "Strix".

Tuszyńsky began working as an animator towards the end of the First World War , around 1919. He set up his own animation studio, in which he could animate his drawings into moving images on film tape. The most frequent producer of his films was Astoria-Film , the only Austrian film production company that regularly produced cartoons in addition to feature films. At this he was also active as an artistic advisor. In many films he mixed real film recordings with cartoons, which means that these films are basically cartoons, but still required the participation of feature film directors, cameramen and actors. Tuszyński also produced many films himself with his Film-Werke AG . Cartoons were usually significantly shorter than the feature films, which in the 1920s had lasted up to an hour or more, and were mostly shown in the opening act of a main film - alongside newsreels and short advertising films.

Tuszyński was one of the board members of the Filmbund , representing the interests of Austrian filmmakers. His animation work ended roughly at the same time as the European film crisis around 1924/25, triggered by a flood of high-quality, but cheaply distributed Hollywood films that ruined most film producers in Austria as well. After that, hardly any cartoons were made in Austria.

Tuszyński, who always maintained his work as an illustrator and caricaturist, worked for Wiener Bilder until 1940 and for about as long for the Kronen Zeitung , whose front page he illustrated for around 40 years. In total, he drew around 12,000 illustrations and caricatures. A selection from these was exhibited in the Vienna City Library in 1953 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death.

Drawing style

Tuszyński always orientated himself on a picture close to nature, but without becoming photographically realistic. In contrast to many other draftsmen of the time, he shaded his figures and objects and thus brought a spatial dimension into his drawings. Like Louis Seel, he was interested in the possibility of combining drawings with real photos. Real film recordings appear in some of his films, and in some he even intervenes personally. For example, in Amaranta (1921), an episode of the film series “Adventures of the Famous Harry Pracks”, you can see his hand helping a fisherman who had an accident in the water to climb the harbor wall. In the film The Discovery of Vienna at the North Pole (1921), which was made a little later, Tuszyński's hand pulls a hanging leash to turn on the aurora borealis.

Filmography

Cartoons drawn and staged by Ladislaus Tuszyński or films that incorporate animation elements:

  • 1921: The Hunt for the Head (Production: Astoria-Film )
  • 1921: Amaranta (Production: Astoria-Film)
  • 1921: Zwerg Nase (Direction with Heinz Hanus , Production: Astoria-Film)
  • 1921: The Woman of the Mad (Direction with Heinz Hanus, Production: Astoria-Film)
  • 1921: Kalif Storch (Direction with Hans Berger, Production: Film-Werke)
  • 1922: Grim Reaper (technical assistance; director: Heinz Hanus, production: Astoria-Film)
  • 1922: The discovery of Vienna at the North Pole (Production: Film-Werke)
  • 1922: Die Venus (Direction with Hans Homma , Production: Pan-Film )
  • 1924: The Maharaja's Doll (Production: Pan-Film)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ladislaus Tuszyński  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vienna in retrospect - Vienna 1953 , wien.gv.at (accessed on August 24, 2007)
  2. ^ Sylvia Winkelmeyer: The Austrian cartoon in the silent film era. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2004, p. 134
  3. ↑ a b c Winkelmeyer, p. 135
  4. ↑ Winkelmeyer, p. 136
  5. ↑ Filmography in the Internet Movie Database and on Filmportal.de (see web links), unless a different source is given for individual titles
  6. ^ Walter Fritz : In the cinema I experience the world - 100 years of cinema and film in Austria. Brandstätter, Vienna 1996, p. 297
  7. ↑ Ludwig Gesek (Ed.): Small Lexicon of Austrian Films. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1959
personal data
SURNAME Tuszyński, Ladislaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian illustrator, caricaturist and animator
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1943
Place of death Vienna