About Hans Richter (artist)
Hans Johannes Siegfried Richter (; German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; 6 April 1888 – 1 February 1976) was a German Dada painter, graphic artist, avant-garde film producer, and art historian. In 1965 he authored the book Dadaism about the history of the Dada movement. He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland. From Expressionism through Dadaism, Constructivism and Neoplasticism, he was one of the major figures of avant-garde art in the 1910s and 1920s and a catalyst for intellectuals and artists in many disciplines. Richter helped organise exhibitions which revived interest in Dada, both in the United States and Europe. In 1956 he made Dadascope, a film dedicated to Dada poetry. == Youth == Hans Richter was born in 1888 to a Jewish family, the son of legation counselor Moritz Richter and his wife Ida Gabriela Rothschild. Even as a child, he wanted to be a painter. He began his first graphic works at the age of 14. His father initially forbade him from studying painting and persuaded him to study architecture instead.
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