Berlin-born American Dadaist, painter, graphic artist, film theorist and filmmaker, born 6 April 1888 in Berlin, Germany and died 1 February 1976 in Minusio, Switzerland.
He was for four decades one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde. Richter assembled some of the century's liveliest artists as co-creators of Dreams That Money Can Buy, his most ambitious attempt to bring the work of the European avant-garde to a wider cinema audience