Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger (22 June 1900 – 31 January 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 movies. 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.
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Oskar Fischinger Biography / Wiki
| Name | Oskar Fischinger |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Gelnhausen, Germany |
| Date of Birth | 1900-06-22 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 66 |
| Deathday | 1967-01-31 |
Oskar Fischinger Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Allegretto | Director | 1936-01-01 | In the 1936 short Allegretto, diamond and oval shapes in primary colors perform a sensual, upbeat ballet to the music of composer Ralph Rainger. The g… |
| Study No. 7 | Director | 1931-01-01 | An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger… |
| Circles | Director | 1933-05-01 | One of the first color films in Europe, made with the Gaspar Color process…. |
| Motion Painting No. 1 | Director | 1947-12-31 | Motion Painting No. 1 is a 1947 experimental short animated film in which film artist Oskar Fischinger put images in motion to the music of Johann Se… |
| Composition in Blue | Director | 1935-06-28 | An abstract film in which every motion of coloured shapes is in strict synchronization with music… |
| Spirals | Director | 1926-05-23 | In ‘Spirals’ Oskar Fischinger designed visual patterns of extreme complexity which often develop in overlapping cycles, yet he interrupts these patter… |
| An Optical Poem | Director | 1938-03-05 | A dance of shapes. A title card tells us this is an experiment in conveying the mental images of music in a visual form. Liszt’s “Second Hungarian Rha… |
| The Contemplative Films of Oskar Fischinger | Director | 2004-12-01 | Compilation of abstract animated films by Oskar Fischinger; includes his short films Spirals, Spiritual Constructions, Study 6, Liebesspiel, Radio Dyn… |
| Walking from Munich to Berlin | Director | 1927-04-28 | In 1927, motivated by a longing for freedom, Fischinger set off on a walking trip from Munich to Berlin. Covering the distance in nearly four weeks, h… |
| Spiritual Constructions | Director | 1927-04-29 | One of Oskar Fischinger’s earliest films, Seelische Konstruktionen (as it is known in German), clearly points the way to the masterpieces of musically… |
| Wax Experiments | Director | 1927-04-28 | For the production of this film, Oskar Fischinger tinted various layers of hot wax. After cooling, the resulting lump of wax resembled a marble cake. … |
| Radio Dynamics | Director | 1942-11-14 | An experiment into what the director termed ‘colour rhythm’…. |
| Squares | Director | 1934-02-03 | A continuous movement… |
| Study No. 6 | Director | 1930-10-01 | The first Studies were synchronized with records (Fischinger made a total of 13 Studies all without sound). It was only with the introduction of sound… |
| Study No. 8 | Director | 1931-01-01 | An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger… |
| Muratti Marches On | Director | 1934-01-01 | Muratti was a German brand of cigarettes. Fischinger transforms bunches of standing cigarettes into things that resemble human beings. At first they w… |
| R-1 | Director | 1927-01-02 | Directed by Oskar Fischinger…. |
| Study No. 9 | Director | 1931-01-01 | An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger… |
| An American March | Director | 1941-01-01 | Stars and stripes forever and ever and ever…. |
| Color Rhythm | Director | 1942-01-01 | An experiment in color and rhythm with no music…. |
| Muratti privat | Director | 1935-01-19 | Animated cigarette advertisement…. |
| Tanz der Farben | Director | 1939-01-01 | Abstract animation…. |
| Love Games | Director | 1931-01-01 | An experimental abstract animation…. |
| Study No. 1 | Director | 1929-01-01 | … |
| Staffs | Director | 1927-01-01 | Parallel bars moving up and down in rhythmic patterns…. |
| Coloratura | Director | 1932-01-01 | Fischinger’s abstract designs accompanied by Gitta Alpar singing…. |
| Study No. 5 | Director | 1930-08-01 | An abstract ballet set to “I’ve Never Seen a Smile Like Yours”…. |
| Study No. 10 | Director | 1932-01-01 | An abstract to music from “Aida” by Verdi…. |
| Study No. 11 | Director | 1932-01-01 | An abstract to music from “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” by Mozart…. |
| Study No. 12 | Director | 1932-01-01 | An abstract set to “Merry Wives of Windsor” by Nicolai…. |
| Dancing Lines | Director | 1930-02-04 | A work of abstract animation… |
| Swiss Trip (Rivers and Landscapes) | Director | 1934-12-22 | The black and white, live-action Swiss Trip, scored with Bach’s 3rd Brandenburg Concerto (like Motion Painting No. 1), is kind of a nature or travel f… |
| Absolute Film | Director | 1947-01-01 | A short experimental film…. |
| Space Light Art | Director | 2012-06-01 | 3-screen experimental animation… |
| Study No. 3 | Director | 1930-01-02 | A work of abstract animation… |
| Sound Ornaments | Director | 1932-01-01 | Curious and intrigued by technological advances, Fischinger here also experiments with “synthetic sound” (he would not be the only one: later Norman M… |
| Münchener Bilderbogen: Pierette Nr. 1 | Director | 1924-01-01 | What remains, unedited, of the first episode of a serial by several hands, subject to a form of supervision-control by Fischinger. It opens with an ex… |
| Mutoscope Reels | Director | 1945-01-01 | An mutoscope motion picture installation commissioned for the 86th anniversary of the Guggenheim museum. Later preserved and turned into a short film…. |
| 1920s Fragments and Wax Experiments | Director | 1927-10-14 | Never-released early experiments, animation drawings and tests from Oskar Fishcinger… |
| Organic Fragment | Director | 1941-01-08 | a short animation from Oskar Fischinger, drawings with periodic colour coding and some cells completely painted…. |
| Study No. 2 | Director | 1930-04-05 | Directed by Oskar Fischinger. Germany, 1930, 35mm, black & white, silent, 2 min…. |
| Alle Kreise erfasst Tolirag | Director | 1934-01-01 | An animated experimental film showing coloured circles moving to classical music, which only got past the 1934 censors billed as a commercial…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Tanz der Farben | Writer | 1939-01-01 | Abstract animation…. |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Woman in the Moon | Director of Photography | 1929-10-14 | A scientist discovers that there’s gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there’s too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful… |
| Woman in the Moon | Special Effects | 1929-10-14 | A scientist discovers that there’s gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there’s too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful… |
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