Berthold
Bartosch
Berthold Bartosch was born in
Bohemia
(now
Czech Republic)
in
1893.
He moved to Berlin
in 1920 and collaborated with
Lotte Reiniger
on her paper silhouette animations:
- The Ornament of the Loving Heart
- The Battle of Skagerrak
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed
- Dr
Dolittle
In
1930
Bartosch moved to
Paris and
created the 30 minute film entitled "The Idea" to which he is most remembered
for. It is described as the first serious, poetic, tragic work in animation. The
film's characters and backdrops were composed of several layers of different types
of
paper. From semi-transparent
to thick
cardboard.
