Ottomar Anschütz

Ottomar Anschütz ( born May 16, 1846 in Lissa, Posen Province, † May 30, 1907 in Berlin- Friedenau ) was a photographer and a pioneer of photographic technique, serial photography and cinematography.

Moment Photography

Anschütz was 1864-1868 by the photographer Ferdinand Beyrich (Berlin ), Franz Hanfstaengl ( Munich, Germany) and Ludwig Angerer (Vienna ) is formed. He then worked as a decorative painter and portrait photographer.

From about 1882 the notoriety of his portraits grew. In addition, Anschutz experimented with the moment photography. Result of his mechanical talent was a hand-held camera with a new roll cloth focal plane shutter ( Rouleau closure ), with very short exposure times were possible. It was not until 1888 he patented its off the image plate blind closure for the Berlin-based Institute CP Goerz Optical earned the right to exclusive fabrication. The Goerz - Anschütz patent camera was produced from 1890 to 1927 with various improvements.

1883 Anschütz photographed with the Emperor maneuvers near Breslau. Two of the resulting maneuvers photographs were printed in 1884 in Leipzig Illustrirten newspaper and thus to the first printed by autotypy snapshots, the ancestors of the press.

Series Photography

In the summer of 1886, Anschutz received by the Prussian War Ministry the task of "Chrono photographs take of riders and horses of the Military Riding Institute in Hannover, to allow these to develop scientific instruction methods for the Cavalry School. " The custom built with 24 electrically connected cameras motion studies he combined to image series. Other series show human movement studies. In 1886, he developed a device for projecting his series of images, the 9 cm × 13 cm consists of a disk with a diameter of 1.5 meters and 24 glass plates in the format. The back-lit with a Geissler tube photographic plates are rotated by a crank drive with a speed of 30 frames per second. In 1887 he presented his " electric Quick Rather " - the Elektrotachyscop - the Ministry of Culture in Berlin. Siemens & Halske took on the commercial production of the unit in Berlin, found the prevalence from about 1891. By 1893 some 140 pieces were produced. The unit was also sold abroad, where it was known as the Electrical Wonder Machine.

For the zoetrope, a simple mechanical device for viewing moving images, Anschütz 1887 developed a dreischlitzige variant to influence the representation of the movement.

1894 succeeded Anschütz first to project moving images with the Elektrotachyscop on a 6 meter x 8 meter screen in the auditorium of Postfuhramt in Berlin Artillery Street (today Tucholskystraße ). During the move to a new photographic studio and new premises on Potsdamer Straße 4 Ottomar Anschütz died in Berlin- Friedenau from the consequences of appendicitis.

Anschütz was on the III. Friedhof Stubenrauchstraße buried in Berlin- Friedenau. The tomb is one of the graves honor the State of Berlin.

Works by Anschütz

Photographs

Unveiling ceremony on the Niederwald

Kaisermanöver in Berlin 1882/83

Kaisermanöver in Berlin 1882/83

Kaisermanöver in NRW 1884

Writings

• Kaiser maneuvers in 1884. In the Rhineland and Westphalia. Manoeuvre scenes taken from life. Well file output. Leipzig: Verlag von M. Hessling 1885.
• The photograph in the house. Three volumes, Berlin 1901 and 1902