Hugo Eywo

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Hugo Eywo (born February 13, 1877 as Hugo Ritter von Eywo in Vienna , † 1953 in Wartberg an der Krems ) was an Austrian art cyclist , actor , photographer and cameraman .

Live and act

Eywo came from a family whose arrogant nobility had never been recognized by the kk authorities. His father fought as an officer under Emperor Maximilian against the Mexican republicans. Eywo worked as an actor and artist before he became known as an artistic cyclist.

Shortly after 1900 he was hired by the French Pathé -Film as a cameraman, for which he from now on delivered photo reports from all over the world, including the first recordings of the completely destroyed San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906. Before 1914 Eywo founded one in Vienna Branch as a photographer, the illustration office Wiener Photo-Centrale . With Eywo's employment at the kuk war press quarter , he and his Photo-Centrale were able to expand the business with pictures from the First World War .

In addition, Eywo was also occasionally active in the film. In 1921 he made Ernst Marischka's four-part Die Huronen together with Willy Winterstein . In the same year he also directed the feature film Sunny Dreams . His career as a cameraman ended with the decline of the film industry around 1924/1925. One of his last films was probably also the best known historically: The City without Jews (1924). Eywo tried to gain a foothold as a producer and distributor, but was unsuccessful with his related projects. In the late 1940s he moved to Wartberg an der Krems, where he died in 1953.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Holzer: The photographic face of war. An introduction. ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lmz-bw.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 9, 2014) In: Anton Holzer (Hrsg.): Armed with the camera. War and photography. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2003, pp. 7-20

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personal data
SURNAME Eywo, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eywo, Hugo Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cameraman and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1953
Place of death Wartberg on the Krems