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Signor Benedick the Moor - The Empress' Obscurity

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Favorite Silent Animation #7 - Lichtspiel (1921-1925)

By the late 1910s, some European artists were beginning to incorporate animation into their art.  Walter Ruttmann’s Lichtspiel series, produced in four separate opuses, allowed his groundbreaking abstract art to come beautifully to life.  I love these images--true living paintings!  And I was thrilled to see them show up in the wonderful recent German TV series, Babylon Berlin.  Ruttman wasn’t too proud to apply his art to advertisements either, and these are stunning works of art in themselves, such as his advertisement for Excelsior-Reifen (1922), Kantorowicz-Liköre (1922), and the GeSoLei trade fair (1926).

Ruttmann’s work inspired his fellow German artists like Hans Richter, who created Rhythmus 21 (1921), Viking Eggeling, who created Symphonie Diagonale (1921), and Oskar Fischinger, who created An Optical Poem in 1938 and even animated a segment in Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940).

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