Nasce a Berlino nel 1888. Studia pittura a Berlino e all’Akademie di Weimar. Al termine della guerra, che lo vede impegnato fino al 1916, si trasferisce a Zurigo ed entra a far parte del movimento Dada. Pittore, regista, storico e teorico, è considerato tra i massimi esponenti dell’avanguardia storica, e uno tra i primi a indagare il rapporto tra pittura e cinema; tra gli anni ’20 e ’30 realizza diversi film sperimentali, pubblicitari o di carattere documentario, fino al lungometraggio Dreams that money can buy, realizzato negli Stati Uniti nel 1948 con la collaborazione di artisti tra cui M. Ray, F. Léger, M. Ernst e M. Duchamp, fondamentale pellicola del neosurrealismo cinematografico statunitense.

SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI PERSONALI:

1946

New York, Art of This Century Gallery, Hans Richter 1919 – 1946

1948

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hans Richter – Art in cinema exhibition

1949

New York, Rose Fried Gallery, Orchestrations: Hans Richter – Paintings, scroll, drawings

1955

Londra, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Hans Richter

1958

Washington, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hans Richter

1960

Baden Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Hans Richter – 40 Jahre Rollen-Bild
Parigi, Galerie Denise René, Hans Richter

1963

Milano, Galleria Schwarz, Hans Richter

1965

Venezia, Galleria del Cavallino, Hans Richter
Milano, Galleria Schwarz, Hans Richter – Dadaismo e Astrazione (1909 – 1923)
Parigi, Galerie Denise René, Arp - Richter

1967

Milano, Galleria del Naviglio, Hans Richter, opere recenti

1968

New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Hans Richter – art 1905 – 1966

1972

Itaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Dada Drawings by Hans Richter
Torino, Galleria Il Fauno, Hans Richter

1982

Zurigo, Kunsthaus Zurich, Hans Richter

1988

Purchase, Neuberger Museum of Art, The Art of counterpoint – nineteen works by Hans Richter

1989

Francoforte sul Meno, Deutsches Filmmuseum, Hans Richter – Malerei und Film

2004

New York, Janos Gat Gallery, Hans Richter
New York, Stendhal Gallery, Hans Richter – Dreams That Money Can Buy

2005

Brema, Kunstlerhaus Bremen, Hans Richter – Der Absolute Film

2006

New York, Stendhal Gallery, Hans Richter: Art and Anti-Art

2008

Torino, Claudio Bottello Contemporary, Intervallo

2012

Acri, Palazzo Sanseverino Falcone, Hans Richter. Dada fino all’ultimo respiro
Londra, Waterhouse & Dodd, Hans Richter

2014

Lugano, Museo d’Arte di Lugano, Hans Richter – Il ritmo dell’avanguardia
Berlino, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Hans Richter – Begegnungen

SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI COLLETTIVE:

1917

Zurigo, Galerie Dada, Ausstellung von Graphik, Broderie, Relief

1929

Berlino, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Film und Foto
Zurigo, Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich, Film und Foto

1936

Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Cubism and Abstract Art
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cubism and Abstract Art
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cubism and Abstract Art

1937

Basilea, Kunsthalle Basel, Konstruktivisten
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cubism and Abstract Art
Baltimora, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Cubism and Abstract Art

1943

Cincinnati, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Form and Formula

1968

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage

1971

Milano, Palazzo Reale, Metamorphose de Dinges
Berlino, Neue Nationalgalerie, Metamorphose de Dinges

1972

Basilea, Kunsthalle Basel, Metamorphose de Dinges

1977

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Extraordinary Men

1978

Venezia, La Biennale di Venezia
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Artists and Writers

1980

Amburgo, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Film und Foto der zwanziger Jahre

1985

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Large Drawings

1988

Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Dada and Constructivism

1989

Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, Art in Berlin 1815 – 1989
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Dada y constructivismo

1993

Los Angeles, LACMA, Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy

1996

Parigi, Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, L

1998

Venezia, Peggy Guggenheim Collection; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Peggy Guggenheim: a Centennial celebration

1999

Bergamo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea di Bergamo, La raccolta Spajani
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Fotografìa pùblica / Photography in Print 1919 – 1939

2003

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Suiza constructiva

2005

Los Angeles, MOCA, Visual Music
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art
Parigi, Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, DADA
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Multiple Räume III. Film. Illusion Und Imagination In Der Kunst

2006

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Dada
Parigi, Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Le mouvement des images

2007

Vienna, MUMOK, Laboratorium Moderne. Bildende Kunst, Fotografie und Film im Aufbruch
Karlsruhe, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Klio - Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945

2008

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s

2009

Miami, Museum of Contemporaru Art, Abstract Cinema & Technology
Ascona, Museo d’Arte Moderna, L’energia del luogo
Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Van Doesburg And The International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World
Cape Town, South African National Gallery, Dada South?

2010

Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Art of Modern Japan
Basilea, Museum Tinguely, Le Mouvement. Vom Kino zur Kinetik
Vienna, MUMOK, The Moderns – Revolutions in Art and Science 1890 – 1935

2012

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Inventing Abstraction, 1910 – 1925
Mosca, Ekaterina Foundation, John Cage’s Experimentis In Context
Detroit, Kunsthalle Detroit, Sunlight on Cold Water
Roma, Villa Medici, Tapis volants

2013

Nuoro, Museo d’Arte di Nuoro, Arp’s galaxy
Parigi, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Dynamo Un Siecle De Lumiere Et De Mouvement Dans L’Art 1913 – 2013
Istanbul, Asfalt Art Gallery, Dada Cinema

2015

Lugano, Museo d’arte della Svizzera Italiana, In Ticino – Presenze dell’arte nella Svizzera italiana 1840 – 1960
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Ameriva is hard to see

2016

Malaga, Centre Pompidou Malaga, Cine Dada, Cine Surrealista

2017

Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Colori
Mosca, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Facing the future. Art in Europe 1945 – 1968
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Form in Fragments: Abstraction in German Art, 1906 – 1925