Fritz Arno Wagner

Emerging from Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig, he refined his artistic eye at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris before joining Pathé as a clerk. By 1913 he was a newsreel cameraman covering the Mexican Revolution from New York; after a brief cavalry service in World War I he returned to Germany, worked as a stills photographer, then as a second cameraman at PAGU, and became a primary cameraman for De… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources