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Hans Richter (1888 - 1976).

Mother and Child.

 

Oil on canvas, signed.

36 x 24 inches canvas size.

51 X 39 inches framed size.

A prominent Dadaist painter, writer and film-maker, Hans Richter was born in Berlin in 1888. He first came in contact with modern art between 1912 and 1913 through the exhibitions of the ‘Blaue Reiter’ and the Herbstsalon. His first works were influenced by Cézanne and the Cubo-futurists as well as by German Expressionism. From 1914, he collaborated with the Berlin periodical ‘Die Aktion’ which was closely linked to the Munich Expressionist movement.

In 1916 he mounted a personal exhibition of his paintings and ‘Die Aktion’ dedicated a whole edition to him. In the same year, Richter went to Zurich after being wounded in the War, and joined the first Dada group primarily for political reasons. In 1917 he produced works derived from Expressionism entitled ‘Visionary Portraits’ but also began to make abstract compositions in black and white.

While still living in Zurich, Tristan Tzara introduced Richter to the Scandinavian painter Eggeling with whom he shared and developed his ideas about the future of painting. By the following year he had returned to Germany with Eggeling. In the early 1920s Richter became involved with cinema animation artists such as Tzara, Hausmann, Man Ray, Georg Grosz, Kurt Schwitters.

Richter moved to New York and was elected professor at the City College and Director of the New York Film Institute which enabled him to make, with the help of Duchamp, Ernst, Man Ray and Léger, the feature film ‘Dreams that money can buy’, which was famous for its abstract colour sequences.

He continued his cinematographic career with ‘8x8’ (1956-7) and ‘Dadascop’ (1961), collaborating with Arp, Schwitters and Hulsenbeck. Richter took up painting again during and after World War II, and in 1946 had an influential show at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of this Century Gallery, the same venue that first staged the Abstract Expressionists.

Richter exhibited extensively throughout his life and his work is now represented in major modern art museums worldwide.

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