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Dada Artist Exibition At Maya Stendhal Gallery In Chelsea, New York
Hans Richter: Art and Anti-Art, June 15-Sept 16
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NEW YORK/EWORLDWIRE/Jun 9, 2006 --- Publicly recognized during his life
by awards such as including the International Prize for Film in Venice
(1947) and Art Prize of the City of Berlin (1967), Hans Richter held over
158 exhibitions, wrote more than 23 books, and he produced, directed or
wrote some 30 films.
He founded the Film Institute of City College, New York, the first film
institute in the United States, and he was actively working until his
death in Switzerland in 1976.
An exhibition at Maya Stendhal gallery provides a unique opportunity to
view an expansive range of Hans Richter’s artworks, films, paintings
posters, original documents, lithographs, work-studies and sculptures
by the visionary whose work continues to resonate and influence artists
today.
Born into a prominent family in 1888 Berlin, Johannes Richter commenced
his art training at the Academy of Art in Berlin and went on to study
at the Académie Julian in Paris. Developing an avant-garde style,
Richter was strongly influenced by artists he met at Berlin’s Sturm
Gallery, as well as by the expressionistic work of Die Brücke and
the Blaue Reiter groups. During WWI, after being drafted into the German
army, wounded and discharged, Richter traveled to Zurich where he met
with two friends from Germany, Albert Eherenstein and Ferdinand Hardekopf.
They introduced him to the Dada artists Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Hans
Arp, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck. Richter began collaborating
with this new circle, and he soon became closely involved with the Dada
movement.
Work from this period includes woodcuts, Dada head and Co-man drawings
and abstracted portraits of his friends and associates such as his visionary
1917 Portrait of Emmy Hennings.
Early on in his career, Richter developed and propagated ideas on art
based in a "Universelle Sprache" -universal language- free of
national frontiers and comprehensible to all people. He continued to base
his visual aesthetic in this concept using brushstrokes and organic and
geometric shapes. Furthering his predilection for conceptual art by working
with new technologies, in the 1920’s Hans Richter began working
with Viking Eggeling to produce abstract films. Several of these groundbreaking
films will be screened at Maya Stendhal Gallery, including Rhythm 21 (1921),
Film Study (1926), Ghosts Before Breakfast (1927) and Dadascope (1961).
Censored by the German government during the Nazi regime as “degenerate
art” these films are now considered classics of early avant-garde
cinema.
Responsible for creating a unique forum where artists and filmmakers could
congregate, he collaborated with his old friends, art world intellectuals
such as Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Leger, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst and
Man Ray.
Richter immigrated to America following the outbreak of World War II.
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CONTACT:
Laurence Lebon
Maya Stendhal Gallery
545 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
PHONE. 212.366.1549
FAX. 347.287.6775
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Photo: Dada Head at Maya Stendhal Gallery (size: 0.5 k)
Dada Head, After 1918 Drawing, 1974. Painted Wood Relief.
91 cm x 58 cm (36” x 23”)
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Maya Stendhal Gallery
545 W. 20th St.
New York, NY 10011
212.366.1549
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