Viking Eggeling

…the artists Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling utilized the animation tables at the big UFA studio to make several of the first abstract animation films. While animation continued to interest experimental filmmakers over the following decades, the animated cartoon short became a fixture of exhibition programming, and cartoon characters Mickey…

…Hans Richter and the Swede Viking Eggeling and continued in the 1930s with the films of Len Lye, a New Zealander also known for his abstract sculpture. McLaren, too, experimented with a wide range of techniques for animating directly on film; he even created many of his scores by stenciling…

…art, why not movement itself? Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter, with animated drawings and film, made the first works in a kinetic tradition that even by the 2010s, though by then generated with digital technology, showed no sign of abating.