Berthold Bartosch

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Berthold Bartosch (born December 29, 1893 in Polaun , Bohemia , † November 13, 1968 in Paris ) was a German animator and film director .

Life

Bartosch was disabled for life due to polio . In 1911 he did a two-year internship as a draftsman with an architect in Vienna . From 1913 to 1917 he studied architecture and art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . Bartosch came to Berlin in 1920 and worked for the silhouette animation filmmaker Lotte Reiniger , among others for The Adventures of Prince Achmed and Doctor Dolittle and His Animals .

In 1930 Bartosch moved to Paris. There he created the film The Idea , a 30-minute animated film based on the woodcut novel of the same name by Frans Masereel . His figures were made of painted cardboard, the backgrounds of layers of tissue paper . In contrast to Lotte Reiniger's silhouette films, Bartosch worked with different lighting to also show the painted front of the figures. He generated smoke and fog by means of soap foam on panes of glass, which he illuminated from below. Noteworthy is his use of a trick table made up of several levels, with which he anticipated Disney's famous Multiplan camera (he had come across a similar structure at Reiniger).

“The Idea” is generally considered to be one of the first serious, even tragic animated films. It is also probably the first film ever to use an electronic instrument for its music: Arthur Honegger composed the music for Ondes Martenot .

From 1935 to 1939, Bartosch worked on the anti-war film St. Franziskus or dreams and nightmares , which was lost in the Cinémathèque Française during the German occupation of Paris . In 1948 Bartosch worked for UNESCO in Paris and taught among others George Dunning ( Yellow Submarine ).

Filmography (selection)

  • 1919: Animated Cards
  • 1919: Communism
  • 1922: The Battle of Skagerrak
  • 1925: The Occupation of the Rhineland
  • 1932: L'idée

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personal data
SURNAME Bartosch, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German animator and film director
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Polaun , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1968
Place of death Paris