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Hans Richter was born on 12 January, 1919 in Berlin, Germany, is a German artist (1888–1976). Discover Hans Richter's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

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Occupation Painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film maker, animation producer
Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 12 January, 1919
Birthday 12 January
Birthplace Berlin, Germany
Date of death 1 February, 1976
Died Place Minusio, Switzerland
Nationality Germany

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1888

Hans (Johannes Siegfried) Richter (6 April 1888 – 1 February 1976) was a German Dada painter, graphic artist, avant-garde film producer, and art historian.

1908

In 1908 Richter entered the Academy of Fine Art in Berlin, and the following year the Academy of Fine Art in Weimar.

1910

From Expressionism through Dadaism, Constructivism and Neoplasticism, he was one of the major figures of avant-garde art in the 1910s and 1920s and a catalyst for intellectuals and artists in many disciplines.

Richter helped organise exhibitions which revived interest in Dada, both in the United States and Europe.

1912

Richter's first contacts with Modern Art were in 1912 through the Blaue Reiter and in 1913 through the Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon gallery Der Sturm, in Berlin.

1914

In 1914 he was influenced by Cubism.

At that time he also befriended Franz Pfemfert, who was the editor of Die Aktion.

Richter contributed to the periodical Die Aktion in Berlin.

1916

His first exhibition was in Munich in 1916, and Die Aktion published a special edition about him.

In the same year he was wounded and discharged from the army and went to Zürich and met Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Jean Arp, and Hugo Ball, who together were forming the Dada movement, which he joined.

Richter believed that the artist's duty was to be politically active by opposing war and supporting revolution.

Hans Richter was married four times: in 1916 to Elisabeth (Lisa, Lies, Lieska) Steinert († 1923), in 1921 to Maria von Vanselow (divorced 1922), in 1927 to Erna Niemeyer (pseudonyms: Renate Green, Ré Soupault, René Mensch), in 1951 to Frida Ruppel (1910-78), whose two children Hans Ruppel and Ursula Lawder administered the estate.

1917

His first abstract art works were made in 1917.

1918

In 1918, Tristan Tzara introduced Richter to Viking Eggeling and the two experimented together with film.

1919

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.

1920

In 1920, he became a member of the November Group in Berlin and contributed to the Dutch periodical De Stijl.

1921

Throughout his career, Richter claimed that his 1921 film, Rhythmus 21, was the first abstract film ever created, but in fact it was preceded by the Italian Futurist films by Bruno Corra and Arnaldo Ginna (as they report in the Futurist Manifesto of Cinema), as well as by fellow German artist Walter Ruttmann, who produced Lichtspiel Opus 1 in 1920.

Nevertheless, Richter's film Rhythmus 21 is considered an important early abstract film.

1923

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:

"I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar 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."

1931

After attempting, in vain, to make an anti-Nazi film in the Soviet Union in 1931–1932, Richter travelled around Europe.

He worked for Philips in Holland and made commissioned films in Switzerland.

He also gave numerous lectures about film.

About Richter's woodcuts and drawings Michel Seuphor wrote that Richter's black-and-whites graphic work, together with that of Hans Arp and Marcel Janco, are the most typical works of the Zürich period of Dada.

1933

In 1933, The Nazis ransacked Richter's studio in Berlin, confiscating or destroying his work.

He was stripped of his German citizenship and labelled a "degenerate" artist and "cultural Bolshevik".

1940

Richter moved from Switzerland to the United States in 1940 and became an American citizen.

1941

Beginning in 1941 he taught at the Institute of Film Techniques at the City College of New York before taking over as director.

1947

While living in New York City, Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) and 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957) in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

1956

In 1956 he made Dadascope, a film dedicated to Dada poetry.

1957

In 1957, he finished a film entitled Dadascope with original poems and prose spoken by their creators: Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Kurt Schwitters.

1958

After 1958, Richter spent parts of the year in Ascona and Connecticut and returned to painting.

Peggy Guggenheim organized his first solo show in the United States in which his large painted scrolls, inspired by the Second World War, featured prominently.

1963

In 1963, he directed the short film From the Circus to the Moon about the American artist Alexander Calder.

1965

In 1965 he authored the book Dadaism about the history of the Dada movement.

He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.

In 1965, Richter was also the author of a first-hand account of the Dada movement titled Dada: Art and Anti-Art which also included his reflections on the emerging Neo-Dada artworks.