Plate (facing page 40) from Das graphische Jahrbuch (The Print Yearbook), Walter Ruttmann, (1920, print executed 1919), MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Curt Valentin Bequest Size: composition (irreg.): 6 3/8 x 3 7/8" (16.2 x 9.9 cm); page: 8 1/4 x 6 3/16" (21 x 15.7 cm) Medium: Lithograph from an illustrated book with two woodcuts, one lithograph and thirty-two full page reproductions

Walter Ruttmann - Lichtspiel: Opus I (1921)

In the film, Ruttmann mastered the technical means to realise his abstract imagery in film. He patented his particular technical methods in 1921. William Moritz provides an interesting description of his method: '[Ruttmann's] first animations for Opus No. I were painted with oil on glass plates beneath an animation camera, shooting a frame after each brush stroke or each alteration because the wet paint could be wiped away or modified quite easily. He later combined this with geometric cut-outs on a separate layer of glass'." 

It can use in the movement and scale.

Avantgarde and experimental German film director (1887 – 1941)