RICHTER, Hans

A Polyartist of sorts, Richter is now remembered for his pioneering films and his books, beginning with his 1921 abstract film Rhythmus 21, which focuses upon a single formal element, the rectangle. In Germany, he worked with Viking Eggeling and with Sergei Eisenstein. In Vormittagsspuk/Ghosts before Breakfast (1927–28), bowler hats fly through the landscape in articulate formations, Richter replicating in human action footage the animator's trick of creating on film comic effects that...