Károly Escher (21 October 1890 - 16 February 1966) was a Hungarian photographer. Escher was born in

Szekszárd Szekszárd (, formerly also ''Szegzárd''; hr, Seksar; german: Sechshard or ; sr, Сексард) is a small city in southern Hungary and the capital of Tolna County. By population, Szekszárd is the smallest county capital in Hungary; by area ...

, in the Tolna region of

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

. He worked as a cinematographer on news reels during the briefly lived

Hungarian Soviet Republic The Socialist Federative Republic of Councils in Hungary ( hu, Magyarországi Szocialista Szövetséges Tanácsköztársaság) (due to an early mistranslation, it became widely known as the Hungarian Soviet Republic in English-language sources ( ...

. Later he worked for the newspaper ''

Pesti Napló ''Pesti Napló'' was a Hungarian newspaper published from March 1850 to October 1939. The paper was based in Budapest, Hungary. The Hungarian author Zsigmond Kemény Baron Zsigmond Kemény (June 12, 1814December 22, 1875) was a Hungarian a ...

'' during the 1930s and 1940s. He died at age 75 in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

in 1966.

Filmography

*''Mackó úr kalandjai'' (1920) *''Masamód'' (1920) ... ''Masa's Way'' *''A Szerelem mindent legyöz'' (1920)

Awards

* 1938

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

Silver medal.

External links

Article
in ''The Guardian'' with some biographical information.
The Red News-Reel of the Tanácsköztársaság: History Dream and Cinema Imagination
by Bruno De Marchi 1890 births 1966 deaths Hungarian photographers Hungarian cinematographers People from Szekszárd {{Europe-photographer-stub