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Ruttmann, Walter «Malerei mit Zeit»
Ruttmann, Walter «Neue Gestaltung von Tonfilm und Funk. Programm einer photographischen Hörkunst» Ruttmann, Walter «Weekend»
Relevant passages:
Dieter Daniels «Media → Art / Art → Media
Forerunners of media art in the first half of the twentieth century» Dieter Daniels «Television-Art or anti-art?
Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s» Golo Föllmer «Audio Art» | 2 Heike Helfert «Technological Constructions of Space-Time
Aspects of Perception» | 2 Rudolf Frieling «Form Follows Format
Tensions, Museums, Media Technology, and Media Art» Barbara John «The Sounding Image. About the relationship between art and music—an art-historical retrospective view» Dieter Daniels «Sound & Vision in Avantgarde & Mainstream » | 2 | 3 Golo Föllmer Julia Gerlach «Audiovisions. Music as an Intermedia Art Form.»
Works by Walter Ruttmann:
Berlin, Symphony of a City Light-Play Opus I untitled Weekend
Web-Links:
Walter Ruttmann
«Ruttmann was born in Frankfurt am Main on December 28, 1897. He studied architecture in Zurich and then painting in Munich. [...] In ‹Berlin. Die Sinfonie einer Großstadt› he applied the principles of his abstract studies and film montage to realistic photographs from the city of Berlin. [...] After ‹Berlin› he turned to sound experiments and was eventually able to make ‹Melodie der Welt›, a Tobis film commissioned by Hapag-Lloyd and the first fulllength German sound film. [...] Ruttmann did not emigrate. He collaborated on a film for a ‹Reichsparteitag› but withdrew from the team for unknown reasons. Beginning in 1934 he was employed as a director by UFA and made cultural, industrial, commercial, and propaganda films. On July 15, 1941, he died in Berlin after an operation.»
(source: Goethe-Institut (ed.), The German Avant-Garde Film of the 1920’s, exhib. cat., München, 1989, p. 78.)
