Fritz Gabriel Bauer

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Fritz Gabriel Bauer in November 2017

Fritz Gabriel Bauer (born June 6, 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian engineer and camera maker. It has received three Academy Awards for Science and Development .

Career

Bauer graduated from a technical college in Vienna and worked as a technical draftsman in a design office. In 1960 he enrolled to study stage design with Caspar Neher at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and became Neher's assistant. After his death in 1962, he worked as a stage technician at the Vienna State Opera and in 1964 went to Oberhausen with the director Axel Corti , when he was appointed theater director. From the mid-1960s, Bauer made stages for Herbert von Karajan's opera and concert films suitable for cameras.

Development of the Moviecam

In 1969, Bauer and cameraman Walter Kindler founded the Moviegroup production company in Vienna , which specialized in commercials and film dubbing . In the 1970s, Bauer developed the Moviecam , a small, lightweight camera that was suitable for use as a shoulder camera. The further developments Moviecam 2, Moviecam SuperLight (SL) and Moviecam Compact were used in numerous Hollywood productions - including films by Stanley Kubrick , Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino . The cameras were each awarded a technology Oscar in 1988, 1994 and 2000 . The jury's statement in 2000 was: "The quiet Moviecam Superlight is an extremely small and light 35mm professional motion picture sound camera which allows the cinematographer to film in ways and situations that were never before possible." In 1997, Moviecam was taken over by ARRI . Bauer played a key role in the development of the successor to the Arriflex : the Arricam came onto the market in 2000.

In 2010 Fritz Gabriel Bauer brought an autofocus system for cinema cameras under the name Easy Focus to market maturity.

Awards

  • Academy Award for Science and Development 1988
  • Academy Award for Science and Development 1994
  • Oscar for Science and Development 2000
  • Time Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievements in Engineering Development for the Moviecam Superlight 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Austrian Association of Cinematographers (AAC), accessed on February 9, 2018
  2. ^ "The hero behind the camera", Wiener Zeitung from December 16, 2017, viewed on February 9, 2018
  3. ↑ Modern Motion Picture Cameras: Moviecam, accessed February 9, 2018
  4. ^ "The hero behind the camera", Wiener Zeitung from December 16, 2017, viewed on February 9, 2018
  5. ↑ oscars.org, Scientific and Engineering Awards 2000, accessed February 9, 2018
  6. ^ The Black and Blue, accessed February 9, 2018
  7. ↑ The Öscars, viewed at Google Books on February 9, 2018
  8. ↑ oscars.org, Scientific and Engineering Awards 2000, accessed February 9, 2018
  9. ↑ APA OTS of July 24, 2000, accessed February 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Fritz Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian engineer and camera maker
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna