Born in Berlin in 1899, Lotte Reiniger found her way to silhouette early on and developed this medium, which until then had been considered more of a craft, into an independent form of artistic expression. However, Reiniger was not only a silhouette virtuoso, probably unrivaled to this day, but also an imaginative and inventive shadow actress. Her name is also particularly closely associated with early animated film – especially through her masterpiece: “The Adventures of Prince Achmed”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reiniger set standards in all three areas of her work – silhouette, shadow theater, and film. The unifying element is the silhouette, which endures as an independent work of art as well as a moving shadow theater or film figure. The book shows three of her most beautiful silhouette series: Mozart’s “Magic Flute” and “The Marriage of Figaro” as well as her animal alphabet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1786,1787,1789],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2281","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-art-culture","product_cat-history-of-art-and-culture","product_cat-monographs-about-artists","pa_herausgeber-evamarie-blattner","pa_herausgeber-karlheinz-wiegmann","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n