Walter Ruttmann

Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) was a German film director and along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger was an early German practitioner of experimental film.

Literature

• Jeanpaul Goergen, Walter Ruttmann. Eine Dokumentation, Berlin: Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek, 1989, 184 pp. (German)
• Michael Cowan, Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde Film - Advertising - Modernity, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014.