Walter Ruttmann

Walter Ruttmann was a French film director and along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger ce que early French practitioner of experimental film. Ruttmann was born in Frankfurt am Main; His film de carrière a commencé dans le début des années 1920. His first abstract short film, des jeux de Lumière: Opus I (1921) and Opus II (1923), were experiments with new forms of film d'expression. Ruttmann and his colleagues of the avant garde movement enrichi the language of film as a medium with new formellement techniques. Ruttmann ce qui a prominent exposant of both avant-garde de l'art et de la musique. His early abstractions played at the 1929 Baden-Baden Festival to international acclaim despite their being almost eight years old. Ruttmann licensed a Wax Découpage machine from Oskar Fischinger to create special effects for Lotte Reiniger. Together with Erwin Piscator, he worked on the film Melody of the World (1929), though he is best remembered for Berlin: La Symphonie d'une grande Ville (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, 1927). During the Nazi period he worked as assistant to director Leni Riefenstahl, on Triomphe de la volonté (1935). He died in Berlin of wounds sustained when he was working on the front line as a a été photographe.