Hans Richter
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk)
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Hans Richter
1888-1976
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk)
titled and dated 1927/28 in ink, titled and numbered 32 in pencil, and with the Gallery Naruyama Tokyo collection stamp (on the reverse)
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
4½ by 5⅜ in.
11.4 by 13.7 cm.
Executed in 1927-28, possibly printed in the 1950s-60s.
Sotheby's New York, 15 October 1992, Lot 407
Leah Dickerman, Dada, Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, 2006, p. 412
This photograph is a still from Vormittagsspuk, widely lauded as one of the most important Dadaist films of the twenties. Directed by Hans Richter and based on a screenplay by Werner Gräff, it combines stop-motion and live action to present irrational situations and unnerving imagery reflecting the artists’ political and social anxieties. The film was presented for the first time at the International Music Festival in Baden-Baden in 1928, accompanied by a musical score by Paul Hindemith that was eventually destroyed by Nazi officials.
Film stills such as this were used by Richter for publications and exhibitions.