Walter Ruttmann was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger.
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11 Facts About Walter Ruttmann
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Walter Ruttmann is best known for directing the semi-documentary 'city symphony' silent film, with orchestral score by Edmund Meisel, in 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis.
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Walter Ruttmann was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of a wealthy mercantilist.
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Walter Ruttmann graduated "high school" in 1905, then began in 1907, architectural studies in Zurich, later, in 1909, painting in Munich where he befriended Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger.
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Walter Ruttmann was conscripted into the army in 1913, first serving in Darmstadt, and shortly after the outbreak of the World War I was he sent to the Eastern Front, where he served as an artillery lieutenant and a gas defense officer.
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Walter Ruttmann had the financial means to work independently of the major German studios of the time.
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Walter Ruttmann founded Ruttmann-Film S R O in Munich and patented an animation table, in June 1920.
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In 1926, Walter Ruttmann licensed a Wax Slicing machine from Oskar Fischinger to create special effects for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, an animated fairy tale film, for Lotte Reiniger, making the moving backgrounds and magic scenes.
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Walter Ruttmann was a prominent exponent of both avant-garde art and music.
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Walter Ruttmann recorded the streets sounds of Berlin with a camera, but without images, this was before magnetic tape.
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Walter Ruttmann died in Berlin 15 July 1941 due to an embolism after leg amputation.
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