For the conductor, see Hans Richter (conductor).

Hans Richter (April 6, 1888 - February 1, 1976) was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. He was born in Berlin and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland. Hans Richter (1843–1916), Austrian conductor (born in what is now Hungary), studied at the Vienna Conservatory (showing a special interest in the horn) and developed his conducting career at several opera-houses in the Austro-Hungarian empire. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Minusio is a municipality in the district of Locarno, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. ... Location within Switzerland Locarno is a city located on Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore) in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino, close to Ascona. ...

Germany

Richter's first contacts with modern art were in 1912 through the "Blaue Reiter" and in 1913 through the "Erster Deutsche Herbstsalon" gallery "Der Sturm", in Berlin. In 1914 he was influenced by cubism. He contributed to the periodical Die Aktion in Berlin. ^[1] His first exhibition was in Munich in 1916, and Die Aktion published as a special edition about him. In the same year he was wounded and discharged from the army and went to Zürich and joined the Dada movement. Modern art is a general term used for most of the artistic production from the late 19th century until approximately the 1970s. ... Cover of Der Blaue Reiter almanac. ... Der Sturm (English from German:The Storm) was a magazine of expressionism founded in in Berlin in 1910 by Herwarth Walden. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Munich (German: , pronounced  ) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria (German: ). Munich is Germanys third largest city and one of Europes most prosperous. ... View of the inner city with the four main churches visible, and the Albis in the backdrop Zürich (German: , Zürich German: Züri , French: , in English generally Zurich, Italian: ) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and... Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ...

Richter believed that the artist's duty was to be actively political, opposing war and supporting the revolution. His first abstract works were made in 1917. In 1918, he befriended Viking Eggeling, and the two experimented together with film. Richter was co-founder, in 1919, of the Association of Revolutionary Artists ("Artistes Radicaux") at Zürich. In the same year he created his first Prélude (an orchestration of a theme developed in eleven drawings). In 1920 he was a member of the November group in Berlin and contributed to the Dutch periodical De Stijl. Viking Eggeling, born October 21, 1880, died May 19, 1925, was a Swedish artist and filmmaker. ... De Stijl redirects here. ...

Throughout his career, he claimed that his 1921 film, Rhythmus 21, was the first abstract film ever created. This claim is not true: he was preceded by the Italian Futurists Bruno Corra and Arnaldo Ginna between 1911 and 1912 ^[2](as they report in the Futurist Manifesto of Cinema ^[3]), as well as by fellow German artist Walter Ruttmann who produced Lichtspeil Opus 1 in 1920. Nevertheless, Richter's film Rhythmus 21 is considered an important early abstract film. Abstract film is a subgenre of experimental film. ... Futurism was a 20th century art movement. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Walter Ruttmann (born December 28, 1887 in Frankfurt am Main; died July 15, 1941 in Berlin) was a German film director and along with Hans Richter the most important practitioner of experimental film. ...

About Richter's woodcuts and drawings Michel Seuphor wrote: "Richter's black-and-whites together with those of Arp and Janco, are the most typical works of the Zürich period of Dada." From 1923 to 1926, Richter edited, together with Werner Gräff and Mies van der Rohe, the periodical G. Material zur elementaren Gestaltung. Richter wrote of his own attitude toward film: Fernand Berckelaers (Antwerp, 1901 – Paris, 1999), pseudonym Michel Seuphor (anagram of Orpheus), was a Belgian painter, draughtsman, and a designer of carpets. ... The reconstructed German Pavilion in Barcelona Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies) (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German architect. ...

"I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own pecular problems and specific sensations, and so has the film. But there are also problems in which the dividing line is obliterated, or where the two infringe upon each other. More especially, the cinema can fulfill certain promises made by the ancient arts, in the realization of which painting and film become close neighbors and work together."

USA

Richter moved from Switzerland to the United States in 1940 and became an American citizen. He taught in the Institute of Film Techniques at the City College of New York. ^[4] The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City)[1] is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ...

While living in New York, Richter directed 2 feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy and 8x8: A Chess Sonata in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Leger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp and others. NY redirects here. ... Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter. ... Max Ernst Max Ernst (April 2, 1891 – April 1, 1976) was a German Dadaist and surrealist artist. ... Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. ... Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 - November 18, 1999), was an American composer, author, and traveler. ... Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 - August 17, 1955) was an artist. ... For other persons named Alexander Calder, see Alexander Calder (disambiguation). ... Marcel Duchamp. ...

In 1957, he finished a film entitled Dadascope with original poems and prosa spoken by their creators: Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Kurt Schwitters. Jean Arp (September 16, 1886 - June 7, 1966) was a sculptor, painter, and poet. ... Marcel Duchamp. ... Raoul Hausmann (July 12, 1886–February 1, 1971) was an Austrian sculptor and writer. ... Richard Huelsenbeck (April 23, 1892 - April 30, 1974) was a poet, writer and drummer born in Frankenau, Germany. ... Kurt Schwitters (June 20, 1887 - January 8, 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. ...

After 1958 Richter spent parts of the year in Ascona and Connecticut and returned to painting. ^[5] Ascona is a town of some 5,000 people in southern Switzerland, on the shore of Lake Maggiore in the canton of Ticino. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ...

Richter was also the author of a first-hand account of the Dada movement titled Dada: Art and Anti-Art ^[6] which also included his reflections on the emerging Neo-Dada artworks. Neo-Dada is a label applied primarily to the visual arts describing artwork that has similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada artwork. ...

Filmography

Dadascope (1961)

8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957)

Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947)

Vom Blitz zum Fernsenhbild (1936)

Keine Zeit für Tränen (1934)

Hallo Everybody (1933)

Europa Radio (1931)

Neues Leben (1930)

Alles dreht sich, alles bewegt sich (1929)

Everyday (1929)

Rennsymphonie (1929)

The Storming of La Sarraz (1929)

Zweigroschenzauber (1929)

Vormittagsspuk ("Ghosts Before Breakfast", with music by Hindemith) (1928)

Inflation (1927)

Filmstudie (1926)

Rhythmus 25 (1925)

Rhythmus 23 (1923)

Rhythmus 21 (1921)

Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter. ... Paul Hindemith (November 16, 1895 – December 28, 1963) was a German classical composer, violist, teacher, theorist and conductor. ...

See Also

• Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920's and 1930's

Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s is a 2-disc, 6-hour DVD collection, released in August 2005 by Kino International which includes the following titles: Le Retour la raison (Return to Reason) (France, 1923) directed by Man Ray, 2 minutes Emak-Bakia (Leave Me...

References

• Stephen C. Foster, Hans Richter: Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998)

1. ^ Haftmann, Werner (1978). Postscript to Dada: Art and Anti-Art. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-20039-4. , p220
2. ^ Article on Futurist Cinema
3. ^ 'The Futurist Cinema' Manifesto, 1916
4. ^ Haftmann, p222
5. ^ Haftmann, p222
6. ^ Richter, Hans (1965). Dada: Art and Anti-Art. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-20039-4. 

External link

• Hans Richter at IMDB
• Hans Richter films at Ubuweb