Walter Ruttmann
- Introduction
- Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) was a German cinematographer and film director, and along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger was the most important German representative of abstract experimental film. He is best known for directing the semi-documentary 'city symphony' silent film Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis. His audio montage Wochenende (1930) is considered a major contribution in the development of audio plays.
- Wikidata
- Q77365
- Nationality
- German
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Photographer
- Name
- Walter Ruttmann
- Ulan
- 500112601
Exhibitions
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511: The Vertical City
Oct 21, 2019–Oct 12, 2020
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection,
1909–1949 Dec 13, 2014–Apr 19, 2015
MoMA
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Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925
Dec 23, 2012–Apr 15, 2013
MoMA
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German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
Mar 27–Jul 11, 2011
MoMA
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Weimar Cinema, 1919–1933: Daydreams and Nightmares
Nov 17, 2010–Mar 7, 2011
MoMA
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Various Artists, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Walter Ruttmann, Gottfried Graf Das graphische Jahrbuch (The Print Yearbook) (1920)
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Walter Ruttmann Plate (facing page 40) from Das graphische Jahrbuch (The Print Yearbook) (1920, print executed 1919)
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Walter Ruttmann, Karl Freund Berlin, die Sinfonie der Grosstadt 1927
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