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Wiener Kunstfilm, in full Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie ( English: "Vienna Art Film Industry"), was the first major Austrian film production company. Founded in 1910 as the Erste österreichische Kinofilms-Industrie, it was a pioneer in almost every field of silent film in Austria.
Die Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie GmbH war die erste bedeutende österreichische Filmproduktionsgesellschaft. Gegründet von Anton Kolm, seiner Frau Luise Kolm (Tochter des Panoptikum-Besitzers Ludwig Veltée) und Jakob Julius Fleck, ging sie aus der 1910 gegründeten Ersten österreichischen Kinofilmindustrie hervor.
Die Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie war die erste bedeutende österreichische Filmproduktionsgesellschaft. Sie ging aus der 1910 gegründeten Ersten österreichischen Kinofilms-Industrie hervor und leistete Pionierarbeit in fast sämtlichen Bereichen des österreichischen Stummfilms.
In October 1911, they set up a company called Wiener Kunstfilm, or Viennese Art Film, with the goal of producing highbrow entertainment films following the then popular film d’art movement.
At the end of 1910 the company was renamed Österreichisch-Ungarische Kinoindustrie, and a new production company, Wiener Kunstfilm, was founded a year later. The Kolm-Veltée-Fleck team sought to make a name for themselves on the Austro-Hungarian market as a response to the dominant foreign suppliers and to focus on current affairs, which had ...
In 1947, the same year in which Austria's first post-war film studio opened the Flecks returned to Vienna to plan their comeback, which however never materialised, although a few films were made under the name of a revived Neuer Wiener-Kunstfilm.
Run like a family business, Wiener Kunstfilm is credited not only with producing the first Austrian film drama but also the country’s first weekly newsreel, unaware that it was chronicling the last glittering years of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
