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...Germany's Hans Richter, 79, and his mastery of the motion-picture medium has long been acknowledged by directors from Fellini to Jean-Luc Godard. In recent years, Richter's unmoving pictures have also been gaining new attention, and they are featured in an exhibit of more than 80 Richter drawings, paintings, collages and films at Manhattan's Finch College Museum. Coupled with a smaller display at the Byron Gallery, the show provides a unique opportunity to see how, as the artist puts it, "film and painting overlap with modern art. Modern art gets its ultimate meaning...
...Richter considers not visual art but music "my principal inspiration." As a child in Berlin, he became fascinated with the impeccable synthesis of logic and rhythm found in the fugues of J. S. Bach. His rhythmically fragmented paintings of musicians made under the cubist-futurist influence around 1914, show him striving for a visual emulation of Bach's counterpoint...
Invalided out of the Kaiser's army in 1916, Richter joined up with the anarchistic Dadaists in Zurich. Nonetheless, his basic predilection for order made him equally sympathetic to the constructivists. In his "scroll paintings," he experimented with a constructivist image, repeated with variations, along a long panel. From there, it was only a step, in 1921, to Rhythm 21, one of the first art films made...
OVER THE BLUE MOUNTAIN, by Conrad Richter, illustrated by Herbert Danska (Knopf; $3.75). The old Pennsylvania Dutch legend holds that on the second of July, a woman named Mary walks over the mountain; if it rains that day, Mary doesn't come back and there are 40 days of rain. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Richter's story tells what happens when two boys meet a real Mary...
ARTHUR'S WORLD by Mischa Richter (Doubleday; $2.95). Arthur one day decides to see the world and proceeds to build an amazing watchtower in order to see over his backyard fence. His world, drawn by The New Yorker cartoonist, is both instructive and delightful...