Biography
Helmuth von Stwolinski, also credited as H. von Stwolinski, was a German-Austrian cinematographer and photographer. Born in Munich in 1901, he studied animal painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and trained as a photographer. From 1928 he worked as a press photographer and on expeditions.
In 1936 Riefenstahl engaged him for the Olympia-Film G.m.b.H. production. He contributed to the cinematography of Olympia (1938), handling several camera systems and filming rowing events at Grünau. Additional credits include Hochzeit im Walsertal (1940) and two other 1940 films.
After the Second World War he settled in Salzburg and then Vienna, where he became a partner in a photographic equipment firm and developed camera systems. He received the Kulturpreis of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.
