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Artist's Profile: Hans Richter German animator Hans Richter started out as a Cubist painter in Berlin. With artists Tristan Tzara and Jean Arp, he helped establish Dadaism in Zurich in 1916. Working in Germany with Viking Eggeling in the 1920s, he produced the short films RHYTHM 21, RHYTHM 23 and RHYTHM 25, as well as FILM STUDY and GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST. In the late 1920s and 1930s, Richter turned to advertising and lecturing before settling in New York in the 1940s and producing live-action experimental films. Between 1942 and 1957, he was the director of the Film Institute of the City College of New York. Selected Filmography:
For more information, contact Ursula Lawder. E-mail: manimal165@aol.com BibliographyVisual Music Absolut PanushkaHans Richter: Give Chance a Chance Creative Arts Television Archive "Abstract Films of the 1920s." William Moritz. International Experimental Film Congress. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1989, 52-57. "Restoring the Aesthetics of Early Abstract Films"William Moritz. A Reader In Animation Studies. Ed. Jayne Pilling. Sydney: John Libbey, 1997, 221-227. The Absolute Film Moritz, William. Lecture notes, WRO99, Media Art Biennale. Wrodaw, Poland: 1999. "Norman McLaren and Jules Engel: Post-Modernists." William Moritz. A Reader In Animation Studies. Ed. Jayne Pilling. Sydney: John Libbey, 1997, 104-111. "Non-Objective Film: the Second Generation." William Moritz. Exhibition catalog. Film as Film, Formal Experiment in Film, 1910 - 1975. London: Hayward Gallery, 1979, 59-71. "Color Music - Integral Cinema." William Moritz. Poétique de la Couleur. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1995, 9-13. "Jordan Belson: Last of the Great Masters." William Moritz. Animation Journal. v.7 n.2 (Spring 1999): 1-17. LinksBiography Dada Online |