The factory gate of the Leitz company at two different times: 1953 and around 1915. The openning credits state "A factory gate study by Oskar Barnack. Revised and set to music by Paul Görnert". As in...
With this filmic documentation, Oskar Barnack paid tribute to the Lumière brothers by also recording workers leaving a factory. In Barnack's case they were workers exiting the Leitz factory in Wetzla...
Views of a boat trip in the Spreewald. The camera follows a boat in subjective perspective. Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with h...
Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with his self-constructed film camera. He documented flood disasters, city festivals, medical expe...
Arrival of the NCO candidates in Wetzlar. The soldiers are expected at Wetzlar station by the gendarme Otto Wallenreich, among others. After the arrival of the train, dignitaries, including the admini...
Seit den 1910er Jahren hat Oskar Barnack, der Erfinder der Leica, mit seiner selbstkonstruierten Filmkamera Geschehnisse rund um Wetzlar im Bild festgehalten. Er dokumentierte Flutkatastrophen, Stadtf...
Documentation of the celebration of the laying of the foundation stone for a "Taunus recreation home" in Oberjosbach, Hesse, on May 21, 1914, showing the celebrating crowd consisting of festively dres...
Portraits of women taken in the early 1920s and a portrait of a woman and a man taken on June 16, 1924. The latter portrait possibly shows Alfred Träger and his wife. Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, ...
Oskar Barnack