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Fischinger, Oskar W.
(b Gelnhausen, nr Frankfurt am Main, 22 June 1900; d Los Angeles, 31 Jan 1967). American painter and film maker of German birth. From 1914 to 1920 he had various apprenticeships in architecture, engineering and organ building. In 1920 he began to experiment with film using hand-drawn black-and-white abstract designs. His first four ‘studies’, set to musical recordings, were made between 1921 and 1924 and shown in Munich and Düsseldorf in 1925. These were animated abstract films using wax mouldings and involving a wax-cutting machine that Fischinger specially designed. In 1926 he moved to Berlin, where he remained for the next ten years. By 1927 he was working with Fritz Lang producing science fiction special effects while continuing his own film making. After the creation of sound on film he produced films such as Study No. 7 (1930–31), a three minute black-and-white abstract film set to Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No. 5.
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