Background
Otto Perutz was born on July 27, 1847, in Teplice, Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic.
Film box of the color film Perutz C 18 (18 DIN)
Otto Perutz was born on July 27, 1847, in Teplice, Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic.
Otto Perutz studied at the Technical High School in Dresden and earned a diploma in chemistry in 1868.
Otto Perutz worked for a chemical manufacturing firm in Heufeld, Upper Bavaria (1870-1876), becoming a plant director in 1872. In 1880 he took over Dr. F. Schnitzer & Co. in Munich, a company that sold chemical products for medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, photography (mainly collodion materials), and other industries.
He soon met Johann Baptist Obernetter and began to produce that chemist's silver-bromide gelatin dry plates. Otto Perutz then manufactured the Perutz Vogel-Obernetter Silver Eosin Plate, combining Obernetter's fast orthochromatic plate with Dr. Hermann Vogel's discovery of the color-sensitizmg effect of azalin and cosin.
Otto Perutz started to produce sensitized films on a celluloid base in 1892, and X-ray plates after Roentgen's discovery in 1895. He sold the business to Dr. Fritz Engelhorn of C. F. Boehringer & Soehne of Mannheim in 1897, but the firm retained the Perutz name.