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William Wauer
William Wauer (1866–1962) was a German sculptor and film director of the silent era. In 1913 he co-directed the biopic ' (1913). In 1915 he directed '' The Tunnel'' the first adaptation of Bernhard Kellermann's science fiction novel '' Der Tunnel''. His birthplace is now the Wauer Museum. Life He was born in Oberwiesenthal on 26 October 1866 the son of a Lutheran minister, Canon Johann Carl Ernst Wauer and his wife Katharine Knobloch. He went to school in Dresden and Halle then attended the Academy of Art first in Dresden then in Berlin and Munich. He then travelled to America where he studied in San Francisco and New York for two years. He then returned to Germany to study Philosophy and Art History at the University of Leipzig. From 1888 he worked as an art critic for the magazine "XX Jahrhundert" (20th Century). When radio came to Germany he began working in this field and began film-making in 1911. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberwiesenthal
Oberwiesenthal (; officially Kurort Oberwiesenthal) is a town and a ski resort in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony in Germany. It is situated in the Ore Mountains, on the border with the Czech Republic, 19 km south of Annaberg-Buchholz, and 23 km northeast of Karlovy Vary. At , it is the highest town in Germany.Official web site (in German) The and goldmedalist in |
Giuseppe Becce
Giuseppe Becce (3 February 1877 – 5 October 1973) was an Italian-born film score composer who enriched the German cinema. Biography Becce was born in Lonigo/Vicenza, Italy. He showed his musical talents early and was named the director of the student musical orchestra at the Padua University when he studied geography. In 1906 he moved to Germany and studied musical composition with Arthur Nikisch and Ferruccio Busoni. In the 1913 silent movie ''Richard Wagner'', directed by Carl Froelich, Becce played the title role and wrote the accompanying music. He continued to write such music for a series of subsequent movies. A collection of these pieces, the so-called " Kinothek" was published between 1919 and 1933 by the Verlag Schlesinger'sche Buchhandlung in Berlin. From 1915 to 1923, Becce was the director of the little orchestra of the Berlin Mozartsaal cinema, located upstairs at the Neues Schauspielhaus in the Nollendorfplatz. After World War I, he was named to direct the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Deaths
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The ''Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nell Walden
Nelly Anna Charlotta Walden (29 December 1887 – 21 October 1975) was a Swedish painter, art collector, and writer. A key figure in the activities of Berlin-based avant-garde magazine ''Der Sturm'', Walden was a pioneer of abstract art and was married to German writer Herwarth Walden. Early life Nell Walden was born in Karlskrona, Sweden, on 29 December 1887 into a clerical Scanian family. Her father Frithiof Roslund was a military preacher, and her mother Hilda Smith came from an affluent Scottish family. Walden had four younger siblings: Ruth, Lotti, Hilda, and Karl. The family moved to Landskrona in 1903, where Walden's father became the vicar. Walden stayed with her grandparents in Trelleborg, where she attended the Trelleborg Elementarskola för Flickor. She graduated in 1904 and entered a school in Lund to study music. She received language lessons in Lübeck during the summer of 1907, and in 1908, she graduated with a degree in Organ (music), organ in Växjö. The followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area (after Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, after Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen, Coswig, Radeberg and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants. Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands (the westernmost part of the Sudetes) and thus in Lusatia. Many boroughs west of the Elbe lie in the foreland of the Ore Mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albertinum
The Albertinum () is a modern art museum. The sandstone-clad Renaissance Revival building is located on Brühl's Terrace in the historic center of Dresden, Germany. It is named after King Albert of Saxony. The Albertinum hosts the New Masters Gallery (''Galerie Neue Meister'') and the Sculpture Collection (''Skulpturensammlung'') of the Dresden State Art Collections. The museum presents both paintings and sculptures from Romanticism to the present, covering a period of some 200 years. History The Albertinum was built between 1884 and 1887 by extending a former armoury, or arsenal, that had been constructed between 1559 and 1563 at the same location.Fritz Löffler: ''Das alte Dresden - Geschichte seiner Bauten''. 16th ed. Leipzig: Seemann, 2006, The new building was designed by the regional master builder Carl Adolf Canzler in the Renaissance Revival style to house the royal "Collection of Antique and Modern Sculptures". The building was named after the Saxonian King Albe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herwarth Walden
Herwarth Walden (actual name Georg Lewin; 16 September 1879, in Berlin – 31 October 1941, in Saratov, Russia) was a German expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines. He is broadly acknowledged as one of the most important discoverers and promoters of German avant-garde art in the early twentieth century (Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Magic Realism). He was best known as the founder of the Expressionist magazine ''Der Sturm'' (The Storm) and its offshoots. Biography He studied composition and piano at the music academies of Berlin and Florence. However, his interest embraced all arts. So he became a musician, composer, writer, critic, and gallery owner. He was best known as the founder of the expressionist magazine ''Der Sturm'' (The Storm) and its offshoots. These consisted of a publishing house and journal, founded in 1910, to which he added an art gallery two years later. He discovered, sponsored and promoted many young, still unknown artists of different s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nights Of Cornelis Brouwer
''The Nights of Cornelis Brouwer'' (german: Die Nächte des Cornelis Brouwer) is a 1921 German silent thriller film directed by Reinhard Bruck and William Wauer and starring Albert Bassermann, Colette Corder and Rudolf Klein-Rogge.The plot, about a respectable citizen who is taken over by a wild other self during nights on the town, is similar to that of ''Der Andere''.Prince p. 36 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert A. Dietrich. Cast * Albert Bassermann as Cornelis Brouwer * Colette Corder as Tänzerin * Rudolf Klein-Rogge * Margarete Neff * Max Wogritsch Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1 ... References Bibliography * Stephen Prince. ''The Horror Film''. Rutgers University Press, 2004. External links * 1921 films Films of the Weimar Repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masks (1920 Film)
''Masks'' (German: ''Masken'') is a 1920 German silent film directed by William Wauer and starring Albert Bassermann and Elsa Bassermann.Bock & Bergfelder p.514 It was part of a group of expressionist films released during the period. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. Cast * Albert Bassermann * Elsa Bassermann * Kurt Keller-Nebri * Albert Paul * Rolf Prasch Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. ... * Maat St. Clair * Rose Veldtkirch References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * 1920 films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by William Wauer German black-and-wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Merry Wives Of Windsor (1918 Film)
''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (German:''Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor'') is a 1918 German silent comedy film directed by William Wauer. It is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's ''The Merry Wives of Windsor ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' or ''Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a ref ...''.Sammons p.87 Cast In alphabetical order * Gretl Basch as Frau Fluth * Jacques Bilk as Herr Fluth * Robert Blass as Falstaff * Edwin Heyer as Cajus * Luise Mark-Lüders as Frau Reich * Ludwig Rex as Herr Reich * Elisabeth Schott as Anna * Harry Steier as Junker Spärlich * Karl Tannert as Fenton References Bibliography * Eddie Sammons. ''Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film''. Scarecrow Press, 2004. External links * 1918 films German historical comedy films German silent feature films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father And Son (1918 Film)
''Father and Son'' (German: ''Vater und Sohn'') is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by William Wauer William Wauer (1866–1962) was a German sculptor and film director of the silent era. In 1913 he co-directed the biopic ' (1913). In 1915 he directed '' The Tunnel'' the first adaptation of Bernhard Kellermann's science fiction novel '' Der Tu ... and starring Albert Bassermann, Elsa Bassermann and Gertrud Kanitz.Bock & Bergfelder p.28 Cast * Albert Bassermann * Elsa Bassermann * Gertrud Kanitz References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009. External links * 1918 films Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by William Wauer 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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