Not to be confused with
Hans Richter, this Hans Richter was a director of surrealist fantasies and as one of the first experimental filmmakers, mostly of short features, shot in black-and-white during the 1920s. An outspoken critic of Nazism, Richter was eventually forced to leave Germany. He settled in the U.S., where he became a professor at New York's City College and director of its Institute of Film Techniques. He was also noted as a painter and an exponent of Dadaism.