Artworks by Lotte Reiniger (40 works)

6 September 2012

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Category: Art and hand-drawn graphics, 0+

Lotte Reiniger was born in Berlin and showed exceptional ability in drawing from an early age. Lotte is self-taught, but her ability to create paper silhouettes allowed her to create her own shadow theater. She originally intended to be an actress, studied under Max Reinhardt, and used her skill in creating portrait silhouettes to attract the attention of director Paul Wegener, who first invited her to do the silhouette for the captions in his films Rubezahls Hochzeit (Germany, 1916) and Der Rattenfanger von Hameln ( Germany, 1918). It was Wegener who proposed and created an experimental animation studio for Reiniger. Thus began the successful career of Lotte Reiniger. She created hundreds of films for American television, the plots were taken from the classic fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm Hauff, and Hans Christian Andersen. The works "A Thousand and One Nights" and "The Gallant Tailor" (1954) were awarded a prize (Silver Dolphin) at the Venice Festival. In 1972, the artist was awarded the Filmband (gold medal), and in 1979, on her 80th birthday, she received the Bundesverdienstkreuz (For Merit).