Biografia

6 aprile 1888 · Berlino, Germania

1 febbraio 1976 · Locarno, Svizzera

Johannes Siegfried Richter

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 947-952. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Not to be confused with Hans Richter, this Hans Richter was a director of surrealist fantasies and as one of the first experimental filmmakers, mostly of short features, shot in black-and-white during the 1920s. An outspoken critic of Nazism, Richter was eventually forced to leave Germany. He settled in the U.S., where he became a professor at New York's City College and director of its Institute of Film Techniques. He was also noted as a painter and an exponent of Dadaism.