Arpad Viragh
Arpad Viragh ( born January 11, 1888 in Budapest, † 31 Mai 1930 on Capri, Italy) was a Hungarian cinematographer who made a career from 1919 in the German film.
Life
Arpad Virágh whose Hungarian name is out in Germany without accents, received his photographic training at the beginning of the 20th century. He then went to Paris and in 1910 was hired by the production company Pathé for two years as a cameraman. In the early phase of World War Viragh began in his native Budapest to work as director of photography. As a result of the failure of the Soviet Republic, he fled in 1919 to Germany, where he initially found work in a number of films less important production companies. He photographed in the next ten years stagings of directors Dimitri Buchowetzki, EA Dupont, Hanns Schwarz, Karl Grune, Richard Oswald and Paul Czinner and these works were the ones who made him known. 1928/29, he resided in the UK and there experienced the transition from silent to sound film.
During the filming of his first sound film The Singing City, from which he also photographed the English-language version of City of Song, Viragh died at the age of 42 years. The cause of death is stated that he had poisoned himself, after he had eaten on Capri shellfish that were not suitable for consumption.